Bye Bye Texas

From Texas.  the "the crew"



to England  (Carolyn in our room)

to Africa (grocery shopping)...this pic was stolen from Darbi  :)

We are on our way! We left the US Tuesday January 24 around 5:00 pm headed to London England. The flight was cramped but uneventful. We landed in London the next morning around 7:00 am and jumped a train for the Comfort Hotel for a brief nap and hot shower. The people in England were very friendly but kept looking at us like we were a little different and i guess we were! We headed back to Heathrow via the bus, ate supper at The Giraffe restaurante and back on the plane for the second leg of our journey. The flight from London to Lusaka was not as cramped and i met a very nice man who works for some government agency teaching farmers to plant crops. How cool is that?

We finally landed in Lusaka and it was raining like a cow .........well you know...:)  We did not have the original receipts for our work visas so we had to pay to enter the country. I should say Blu had to pay. We escaped without futher ado and headed to the mission house in Lusaka soaking wet and exhausted. I believe the day is Thursday.  We traveled to a government office in search of our names in some sort of log so we could get our actual work visas but no luck. I do not exist in Zambia. mmmm I have a 30 day temporary visa and will have to come back. I thought I was unorganized! We headed back to the mission house bobing and weaving out of traffic like mad. Dallas traffice is nothing compared to Lusaka. Pizza from Pizza Inn for supper and bed.   nite nite