Accra: 03 +10 =13

Alali: A child born in October, in a season of celebration!

My friends and I love to feel cute with ourselves. The trip to Ghana was for a bunch of us and people kept dropping out until it was just us 3 Alalis - Member, Oroma and Me- Ocotber's Very Own (OVO).

Straight from the airport and into the night

03, 10, 13... why those numbers? Member's 3rd October, Oroma's 10 and add them both and you have me, 13th! Don't ask who came up with that.

Needless to say, we had a fabulous time in our 3 nights or so in the city of Accra. Fashion, food and shopping kept us busy the entire time. Meet our friend, Ziggy who owns the shop we wanted to buy out. He gave us new names except me though: Andie, Bandie (Oroma) and Candie (Member) and Ziggy tagged himself Dandie and declared us family and made friendship bracelets to seal the deal. Jokes! He's the funniest fellow I've met in a while!

That Ziggy (Dandie) on the right posing with our friendship bracelets and his bff on the streets, 

And my outfit du jour:

Earrings: Mina Stones
Necklace: Gift from South Africa
Top: Zara
Skirt: H&M
Purse: Zara
Slippers: Topshop

Feast your eyes on how we coloured the ancient city of Accra - it has an old feel to it or maybe it's just me...

Me with Ghanaian designer, Mina Evans. Visit her website here

 Necklace: H&M

Blouse: Dorothy Perkins

Skirt: Zara

Wedge Heels: New Look

Don't know how I didn't get one of these

Wait! Are those...? Oh my!

I want everything!

Oroma doing the bookmark selection

Look what ended up on my arm

Bookmarks, snatched by my colleagues once I brought em out

Movenpick, ugly outside, beautiful inside with an awesome Sunday Brunch. A must have whenever you visit Accra

This fly begged for it. Needing to take a swig at our bubbly... eugh!

Later that day, Oroma stepped out for a designers' cocktail event to round up the fashion week

Oroma in Alali Boutique

After this post, I'll be gone till December. I'm missing out on so much but 'tis for a little while. This too shall pass. x

Thai + Traders

This one's a little late because in the past two weeks, I have been stressed and stretched beyond my own super woman abilities, but I still found a way through it all :-P. I have moved based. I'm now somewhere I call 'home'. 

Despite the heat and having hot flashes, I was trying to unpack when I came across my dinner photos with gorgeous Resa and decided to blog about it. And guess what?! I have pretty decent internet. Rather, my mother does. Hehe! So this was our failed attempt at goodbye. Failed, as we did some serious partying the weekend after (look out for those pictures). We had dinner at Busaba and munched on macaroons and cake pops afterwards (yummy stuff from Selfridges) and headed to some bar... Trader Vic's it was called.

Calamari and guava collins, dedicated to darling Iro

Macaroons and cake pops. Now you know why I'm a member of team chunk!

Resa and her annoyingly long hair

Her drink was magical and her nails, offensive!

See! She has a thing for 'chipped' polish

Love the ring!

Concentrating on this nasty cocktail

Maybe I can get back to unpacking...

x

Andiva