– Please remember – Hapana pictures! (NO Pictures!) (I have some posts that mention pictures and I may try to put one on, but if you don’t see any pictures know that I am not able to get them on the Internet!) The one post I put on for 2-29 took me 70 minutes to get to the site, copy and paste my information and finally upload it to the blog! I did try to put a picture on but it was too slow and wouldn’t accept my picture. Pole – sorry for that!
The flight from Heathrow to Nairobi went well. We had to make an unscheduled stop in Entebbe, Uganda to drop off some tires for another airplane! We weren’t allowed to get off the plane but we were only there for about an hour so we visited with our neighbors sitting behind us! We wanted to call Gideon to let him know that we would be arriving about two hours later so he wouldn’t have to sit at the airport, but our phone would only pick up Uganda airspace! We weren’t able to reach him so he’ll have to sit at the airport with his family until we arrive, I feel bad about that.
Sleeping on both flights was touch and go. Who can ever get a good night’s sleep on a plane? But at least we were able to sleep some of the time. We finally landed in Nairobi around 10am instead of 8:30 when we were scheduled. The first thing we had to do was go through security, which was very easy since we already had our entry Visas. Then it was off to find all our baggage. Chuck got a couple of porters to help carry it all out to the vehicle that Gideon should have here for us to get it all back to his home. They started getting boxes off the track and for about an hour we were getting boxes, then the track stopped with us being two boxes short of our total of 21! We looked all around to see if someone had put them somewhere else, but they weren’t there. So Chuck had to put in a request for lost luggage, in the meantime I was looking.JPG)
outside the secure area to see if I could find Gideon. And since we were almost the last people around it wasn’t hard to spot him and his family. They all had a big grin on their faces! Chuck finished up with the lost luggage people then it was off to customs! They wanted us to open a box, which was ok since every box was opened in the US and retaped by TSA. Believe me, they didn’t do a very good job because one of our boxes came out in a plastic bag because it had split open from their bad tape job! Sorry mom and dad, all that hard work taping and putting lists on all the boxes contents, the US still opened them all!
We were finally able to leave and I got a big hug from Pauline! Meeting my sister in person was a thrill and I really didn’t have words to speak! I couldn’t believe I was actually there in Kenya, finally after so many months of anticipation. Then Chuck got his hugs and to see him and Gideon together was like a dream come true. God is amazing bringing them together from opposite sides of the world!
After packing all the boxes into a van we were off to Tala! More on that day in my next blog. Pray that our boxes are found!.JPG)
The flight from Heathrow to Nairobi went well. We had to make an unscheduled stop in Entebbe, Uganda to drop off some tires for another airplane! We weren’t allowed to get off the plane but we were only there for about an hour so we visited with our neighbors sitting behind us! We wanted to call Gideon to let him know that we would be arriving about two hours later so he wouldn’t have to sit at the airport, but our phone would only pick up Uganda airspace! We weren’t able to reach him so he’ll have to sit at the airport with his family until we arrive, I feel bad about that.
Sleeping on both flights was touch and go. Who can ever get a good night’s sleep on a plane? But at least we were able to sleep some of the time. We finally landed in Nairobi around 10am instead of 8:30 when we were scheduled. The first thing we had to do was go through security, which was very easy since we already had our entry Visas. Then it was off to find all our baggage. Chuck got a couple of porters to help carry it all out to the vehicle that Gideon should have here for us to get it all back to his home. They started getting boxes off the track and for about an hour we were getting boxes, then the track stopped with us being two boxes short of our total of 21! We looked all around to see if someone had put them somewhere else, but they weren’t there. So Chuck had to put in a request for lost luggage, in the meantime I was looking
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outside the secure area to see if I could find Gideon. And since we were almost the last people around it wasn’t hard to spot him and his family. They all had a big grin on their faces! Chuck finished up with the lost luggage people then it was off to customs! They wanted us to open a box, which was ok since every box was opened in the US and retaped by TSA. Believe me, they didn’t do a very good job because one of our boxes came out in a plastic bag because it had split open from their bad tape job! Sorry mom and dad, all that hard work taping and putting lists on all the boxes contents, the US still opened them all!We were finally able to leave and I got a big hug from Pauline! Meeting my sister in person was a thrill and I really didn’t have words to speak! I couldn’t believe I was actually there in Kenya, finally after so many months of anticipation. Then Chuck got his hugs and to see him and Gideon together was like a dream come true. God is amazing bringing them together from opposite sides of the world!
After packing all the boxes into a van we were off to Tala! More on that day in my next blog. Pray that our boxes are found!
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