Jul 18 2007
Almost to Uganda
 We had a delayed start for our travel. Our flight from Northwest Arkansas was delayed a few hours…we were still able to make our connection in Chicago though. After lunch at Chili’s at the Ohare Airport (Thanks Joe for lunch) we boarded a huge Lufthansa 747, double-decker plane. We left Chicago around 3:00p.m. Joe and I were at the very back of the plane (where the cool people sit), Michael and Paul were in the middle, and Pete and Jim were up front. There were a total of 50 something rows downstairs with 8 seats across that thing. I only saw Pete once on the ride to Frankfurt. He came around to make sure everyone got on. This was the craziest flight ever because of the time change. The sun set in the west, like normal, about 8:20p.m. Arkansas time, we were somewhere over the Atlantic, I have no idea what time zone we were in at that point. Anyhow, the sun camp back up at 11:00ish in the West. Yes, the sun came back from where it went. We were chasing the sun…sweet. The screens on the plane showed our altitude, speed, distance and all that stuff from time to time. At one point we were going 700 MPH and it was -70 outside at 30,0000′. I had a slight moment of pansiness as I thought about being that high, going that fast and that much water below….We arrived in Frankfurt around 6:00a.m. There is an 8 hour difference, so it was 10:00pm in Arkansas. We ate breakfast at the Frankfurt airport, (Thanks Jim for breakfast…I am seeing a pattern here).  Our connection flight from Frankfurt to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia left at 11:00a.m. We stopped for about a half an hour in Khartoum, Sudan and some folks got off and then we got back in the air for a two hour flight onto Addis Ababa. The flight from Frankfurt today ended up being about 8 hours…MY TAIL BONE HURTS!Â
Some cool stuff, I saw the Red Sea, the Nile River, the Liberian Desert, and a cloud that looked like Shrek, just kidding on the cloud part.
Just a little side note for those of you that know my eating habits…bread is they serve and sell so far…Sorry Dr. Atkins, I will catch up with you in a few weeks.
Okay, so it is 3:08 in Arkansas and 11:08pm in Ethiopia. We just had some amazing food, yummy! Everyone is about to crash…we’ve been up a long time. Pete and Jim are rooming together, Michael and Paul, and Joe and me. Everyone is great…tired. We will leave for Uganda tomorrow morning at 10:00a.m. We will be there for 4 days. Hopefully I will be able to update again once we are there. My eyes are bloodshot, I am going to sleep. More later…
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Hou Jou Stnk Bek Va…. never mind won’t finish that last one.
I have words of advice for you while you’re in Africa, Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow. Even though everyone says there isn’t snow in Africa, I know they’re lying cause if there wasn’t any snow why would all of the animals have fur.
Praying for ya’,
Va—– Boy
Jason ~
I miss you like crazy!! Has it only been two days? How am I gonna make it without you for two weeks?
I love you!!!!
darn it, i was hoping i would comment before julie, beause now my comment doesnt mean as much because the woman you love already beat me to it:) jud jokes. having some good times in africa. haha just reading this makes me homesick. man praise God you guys had such little delays and setbacks. africa is notorious for more than one. hahaha. man i should have sat dwn and spoke to you about it before you left. (mainly for me, cuz i like talking about it. ) will have to wait till you get back ig uess. anyways. have great time and let God lead you. cheers brother.