Layovers and New Socks

Wednesday morning:

5:30AM - meeting in the lounge

6:00AM - Begin driving to the airport

10:00AM - Flight leaves to Dubai

6 hours later - Arrive in Dubai - the biggest airport I have ever been in my entire life.

13 hours later - leave Dubai for Cape Town.  At this point we don't smell so good and Teresa wanted new socks.  We get on the plane and what should the flight attendants give us?  Some new socks.

9 hours later - Arrive in Cape Town and run through customs because our flight was going to leave in 45 minutes only to find out it was delayed - the first time I have been happy for a delayed flight.

2 hours later - Leave for Durban

Another 2 hours later - Arrive in Durban in what felt like the shortest plane ride ever.

So finally - Thursday night, we all arrived at Hope Farm.

More to come later.  But pretty much, it is beautiful here and I like it a lot and I'm excited for all that we are going to get to do here.

    

Leaving

Well hey there.  Just a quick little update - I am leaving tomorrow.  That is weird.

5 people from our group are already on their way to Africa and the rest of us leave tomorrow morning.  We will be leaving the oval at 6AM.  Again - that is weird.  We start with a 6ish hour flight to Dubai and then we will be sleeping in the airport for 12 hours (oh so exciting) and then another long flight to Cape Town and then a not as long flight to Durban.  We should be there sometime by Thursday.  That's a lot of traveling... So yeah, just wanted to let those that actually read this know that after today, I will be phoneless with limited internet access.  I'll try to keep this as updated as I can.

Please pray for me and the rest of my team and that God would get all of us there safely and would continue to just bless us as we begin this crazy new adventure.  I'm excited and scared and anxious and nervous and every other emotion you can be.

Here we go...