Saturday, January 17, 2009

We've arrived in Africa!

It's been a long day and a half but we have arrived safely minus one piece of luggage, the one that has most of my clothes in it, I guess our first lesson to learn is patience!!! Good flights, great airline, had strong headwinds over the Sahara so that slowed us down. We were late arriving here but praise God that the driver from the guest house has more patience than most North Americans. He waited 3 hours for us!! By the time we got through customs and claimed our lost luggage, it was an extra 2 hours and such is life out here. Another trip to the airport tomorrow night to pick up the one luggage that was rerouted to Nariobi!?!?!
Within minutes our sweat glands were sprung into action, around 28 but the humidity is shocking. Oh, the first smells of Africa... sewer, sweat, garbage and diesel. Feeling a little out of our comfort zone but after a good night's sleep things should be more clear to us.
The flights felt extremely long but the boys were thankful for their psp's.
It is now 11:00 PM here, 8 hours ahead (Amsterdam was 9 ahead). I don't think Africa changes their times.
We miss the girls a lot, especially when we got to the guest house and are staying in the same room we first found the girls!! sob,sob...
Will keep you posted...
Les Jackie Kyle Kelvin

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