Kenya, post # 1

Here it is, Rhonda, my first Kenya post!!!

Oct. 17-18

When we left on the 17th I did not really know what o expect. I had never flown for more than a couple hours at a time. I had never gone through international security. I barely knew the people I was traveling with. But I had prayed a lot about the whole travel part of the trip, so I knew it was in God's hands.

After checking our luggage and going through security we walked to our gate. My mom and I were rather hungry by this time and decided to go to McDonald's. We said goodbye to our much loved Diet Coke and I got my last Starbucks for two weeks. (Rhonda, could you do that? No white chocolate mochas, for two weeks? :) ) We climbed onto the plane not long after and got ourselves settled for an 8-hour flight.
Somehow I always seemed to end up next to Abby,which wasn't bad, because I enjoyed her company. We had lots of fun chatting about the most random things. And I watched her knit for quite a long time, and she watched me play tetris.
The coolest thing about the flight? The TVs in the back of the seats in front of us. There were video games and such that you could play. The movie choices were not great, but they were okay.
When we got to London we had to go through another huge thing of security. Poor Abby got her peanut butter taken away. :( We watched the sunrise over the runway and walked around for most of the layover. When they opened out gate we gathered everybody up and made our way there.
Jodi and I decided to get some water. We did not have any pounds, so we used my American dollars and got pence for change. We got onto the plane and settled in for another endless flight. the movie choices were a little better this time, and there were still a ton of episodes of "The Office".
We got in Nairobi really late and still had to stand in line to get our visas and then collect our luggage. y the time I got my visa the others had collected all the luggage. Then we waited for Jodi, my mom, and Jolinda. We met one of our drivers right outside the airport. We had three vans and managed to fit all of our luggage in there, with fur people in each van I got my first taste of Kenyan roads and the many speed bumps therein When we came up to our hotel and got through the gate, I was incredibly ready to fall into bed. Mom and I checked in, got our luggage to our rooms, got water from the guy who showed us our room, took some pictures, changed our clothes, and fell into bed.


I think that's good enough for now. :)