We Made it!

After a total of about 22 hours of flying plus layovers, we made it to Africa!

The lady sitting next to me on one of the flights was really funny. We went through some really bad turbulence and she started screaming and grabbing my arm. She didn't speak any English so the whole situation was funny. After our second plane landed everyone clapped and cheered. I don't know if that is standard for international flights, or if people were just super excited to be done with a 12 hour flight, but either way it was really funny.

We got in at about 2:30 AM and we got picked up by Boyd as well as the member of the church from this area. His job is actually to pick up people that are here on a humanitarian trips from the air port and take them around town. We are staying in a hotel for now and we got to take a hot shower! Apparently that doesn't happen very often. It felt really nice after our forever long plane ride.

 

This morning we woke up and went to breakfast and then after breakfast Aunt Carol wanted to show us around Dar es Salaam so we went for a walk. Uncle Boyd was in a meeting so it was just the three of us. We just kinda wandered for a bit and then Aunt Carol needed to go to the bathroom so we started walking back to the hotel. We soon realized that we were lost and so Aunt Carol just decided to go to the bathroom in a supermarket. It was one of the hole in the ground kind. Gross... We’ll have to get used to that. So after that we tried to get our bearings and figure out which direction we should walk. We asked a man if he knew where our hotel was and he directed us down the road. Kirsten thought it was the wrong direction, but we went there anyway. We walked for quite a ways and we didn’t recognize anything so we decided to ask someone again. We ended up talking to a man named Alex. He knew English really well and was able to figure out where we are staying and then he gave us a ride back in his car. It was so good that we found him because none of us had any money or a phone or anything that we should have had with us. Turns out Kirsten was right. We had gone the complete opposite direction, but we made it back safely!