Sept 10–12 = Travel Days

Sept. 10^th – 12^th were travel days.  After an uneventful flight to Houston, Texas, we had a wonderful overnight visit with our friends, Rosemary and Greg Przybyszewski.  We got to lounge in their pool and eat really good food! 

The afternoon of the 11^th we left on the long flight to Entebbe, Uganda.  The first 2 legs went smoothly.  In Nairobi we had to change to a different airlines which required getting a ‘passing through’ VISA ($), collecting our luggage, going through customs, checking our luggage and catching our last flight.  We had 2 hours to accomplish all that.  Thank you all for praying, we certainly needed it.  We were praying the whole time.  VISA getting went OK, customs was fast, luggage retrieval was slow, finding the ticket counter was confusing (we finally had a lady offer to take us there, for a tip of course but it was well worth it!).  When we got to the ticket counter to check our bags we were told the flight had already closed (by a matter of minutes) and they could not get our bags aboard.  We must have looked really forlorn at the prospect of spending the night in the airport so the agent went and talked to her supervisor and he OK’d loading our luggage late.   Also discovered Kenya Air does not have the same baggage allowance as most other airlines (more $$).  With a few minutes to spare we made it aboard – praise God!  We arrived in Entebbe at 11:45pm.