African Acrobatics?!
Just came back from a serious workout, don't think I've ever ran so many stairs in my life!
Crashed behind my desk and checked my mail. the other day my dad had an interesting reaction after reading my blog :) So I asked him to type it out and give you guys a break form my rambling! Well, here it is!
We were living in Ouagadougou at the time and the hot season was very hot so we decided to go to the beach in Togo. Some 750 kilometers away. Togo was a very civilised country as far as african countries go and we took two days to reach the capital. There were a couple of soldiers at the roadblocks on the way who thought that Meike would make them a nice wife, but when we explained that she was already engaged to Thomas, a little Belgian guy whom she loved to be around, they accepted and wished us a safe journey. In Lome we settled in a luxury holiday resort, full of tourists freshly flown in from Europe. Of course these tourists had to be entertained so one evening a group of acrobats (father, umpteen children (?)) in decreasing height came in and started doing all kind of tricks. Meike was smaller than the smallest child and fitted nicely in the row, so when they were all standing in line she joined the row and started dancing with the troupe. At the end of the performance the father started balancing on a plank that was roling over a cylinder and took Meike on his shoulders. So there was this big african guy with a little 3 year old girl on his shoulders. I think her parents were more impressed than the tourists. We cannot prove it as we do not have a picture of this event (which is very exceptional in our family) but that must have been more or less the first acrobatic act of Meike. Only to be repeated in Hawaii with some french guys.
*grins* a small 20 years later!
thanks dad!
Music for the day: Handel?, Water Music
Crashed behind my desk and checked my mail. the other day my dad had an interesting reaction after reading my blog :) So I asked him to type it out and give you guys a break form my rambling! Well, here it is!
We were living in Ouagadougou at the time and the hot season was very hot so we decided to go to the beach in Togo. Some 750 kilometers away. Togo was a very civilised country as far as african countries go and we took two days to reach the capital. There were a couple of soldiers at the roadblocks on the way who thought that Meike would make them a nice wife, but when we explained that she was already engaged to Thomas, a little Belgian guy whom she loved to be around, they accepted and wished us a safe journey. In Lome we settled in a luxury holiday resort, full of tourists freshly flown in from Europe. Of course these tourists had to be entertained so one evening a group of acrobats (father, umpteen children (?)) in decreasing height came in and started doing all kind of tricks. Meike was smaller than the smallest child and fitted nicely in the row, so when they were all standing in line she joined the row and started dancing with the troupe. At the end of the performance the father started balancing on a plank that was roling over a cylinder and took Meike on his shoulders. So there was this big african guy with a little 3 year old girl on his shoulders. I think her parents were more impressed than the tourists. We cannot prove it as we do not have a picture of this event (which is very exceptional in our family) but that must have been more or less the first acrobatic act of Meike. Only to be repeated in Hawaii with some french guys.
*grins* a small 20 years later!
thanks dad!
Music for the day: Handel?, Water Music
posted by Nooy at Tuesday, October 04, 2005
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