We just
traveled for 27h to arrive in Nairobi!
It is an odd feeling, however, because although I know there is a
different world out there at the moment, there is little feeling of culture
shock at all because it is all in English!
Pretty odd to describe, actually.
Friday
morning we flew from Calgary to Montreal.
We managed a nice smoked meat sandwich (which I was looking forward to
since we received our flight itineraries) and had no problems getting the
flight to Zurich. Zurich to Nairobi was
about the same distance/time as the overseas flight, but we had more room to
spread out as the flight wasn’t booked up completely. It actually all passed much more quickly than
I thought!
The one
downside to the entire flight adventure is that mom’s suitcase didn’t
arrive! Kendra and I only had carry-ons
(I am so convinced that’s the way to go!), but dad did get his and hopefully
mom’s will arrive tomorrow at some point.
It helps that we’re at the same hotel for two nights before heading out.
On
Thursday before taking the bus to Calgary I had this seemingly brilliant idea
to make matching-ish T-shirts for us all.
It was quite chaotic getting them done, and I now owe Jamie from work
big time (never mind the girls in the store!!)…but we each have a shirt that
has a cool picture of either a hippo, giraffe, zebra, or elephant on it with
the words “Kenya 2012” on the back. They
seem dorky and I know it’ll be work to get Kendra to wear it a couple of times J, but I think it’s
awesome J
. It’s a good thing I make myself laugh!
We have
a great gym here at the hotel and as there isn’t much to do tomorrow morning
before we head off, we are all going to have a work out! I am so excited, it is ridiculous…but after
all that flight time, who wouldn’t be?!
I know the real excitement of the trip will happen after that!
Off to
bed now!
-AJ
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