As a side note, we choose to fly from Abuja to Lagos rather than take ground transport. This article made the decision a no brainer!
Airport selfies as we arrived in Lagos and were picked up by Aunt Lola and brother Adeola
We were booked in the National Sickle Cell Center Guest House and Conference Centre in Surulere at N12,500 per night. Lonely Planet budget hotels in Lagos start at N15,000 - N20,000. Our room was the upstairs, the last alcove you see on the right.
Lots of security
A wonderful view of the LUTH gardens outside our room
Not even the mosquitos could get in
It took 30 minutes to get your food in the restaurant
A beautiful morning in Lagos
The flowers are all blooming
The sky is nice and dreary, that holds the temperature down to about ninty-five degrees F.
Modupe's alma mater, Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Where's my baby?
The back of the classrooms
Picture taking was getting fun
Security stopped us here and took us in for unauthorized photography and ran us off after an interrogation
We walked away single file
Leaving LUTH behind
Lunch at Takuro Str
The old neighborhood
Hey, I used to live here
She knew Modupe's mom
"Oh sure, I'll come back"
Later Adeola took us to the Atan Cemetary
The mother's grave is in here somewhere. It seems the family was a couple of years behind in maintenance dues.
Seyi, Modupe and Mike had lunch at Aunt Lola's, on the Army Base.
Aunt Lola is Seyi's father's sister
Cousin Ade came by Aunt Lola's
Cousin Ade and Modupe
Aunt Lola took us out to see Seyi's uncle Kunle and Alhaja, Seyi's father's aunt
Seyi, Alhaja and Modupe. Alhaja means a visitor to Mecca
Modupe meets granddaughter Jasmine with Seyi
Modupe, Jasmine and Mike
Selfie with brother Adeola back at the NSCC
Selfie with sister Biodun
Biodun, Modupe and Biodun's son, Fatai
Mother and son, cell phone in hand
Brother Adebiyi's family, wife Toyin and children Debola (left), Derin (right), and son Adefowowe
Oyinbo joins with brother Adebiyi's family
Brother Adebiyi joins his family
Brother Biyi and sister Biodun
Watch the razor wire!
Seyi joins the crowd
Brothers Adeola and Biyi
Cousin Tony
Cousin Tony
Sister Biodun and brother Idowu
Sister Rose's son Paul the geologist, married to Biodun who we met in Karu on hairdresser day
Brother Idowu
Cousin Issac's mother Margaret (Tony and Ade and Gladys and Iana and Helen's stepmom)
Nephew Paul and Seyi
Brother Idowu
Sister Rose's son Timothy the physical therapist joins Modupe and Idowu
Fatai, Adeola, Biodun, Modupe, Idowu, Seyi and Biyi