music nite!

We got together with friends last night for some music. Here are a few pictures.

Ann cooked Thai peanut sauce and roasted eggplant last night before we left. Note whiskey bottle at upper right, with yellow label. We are not big whiskey drinkers; this is actually a peanut bottle. For some reason, all the peanuts in Yaounde are sold in old whiskey bottles. Someone here is drinking lots of whiskey.

This is Beth. She hosted last night. Her apartment is near our place, in an apartment complex called Cabtal.

Phil and Cathy. Phil can play anything, and Cathy can sing it. We met them last month, and had them over to our place along with another guitarist named Dan, who has since returned to the village where he works. That first night was mostly bluegrass, but we sang all sorts of things last night: Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Beatles, blues, hymns, and lots of old-time gospel numbers from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, with Cathy and Ann singing beautiful harmony. Alas, Phil and Cathy are leaving Yaounde next week and won't return til after we leave the country. We may get one more music night together before they leave, if they have time.

Karen. She hurt her knee a couple of weeks ago; thus the borrowed crutch. It doesn't seem to have gotten her down though.

Me and Ann.

Pam, Phil, me, Ann and Cathy. Pam also hurt her leg. She has the other crutch from the set Karen's came from. We met at Beth's last night so she and Karen wouldn't have far to walk, since they all live at Cabtal.