Good morning!

I’ll leave all the great, insightful, thought-provoking posts to Liz, and I’ll just continue to bring you photos and a bunch of randomness. 

I survived my night spent in the Dubai airport…It’s currently 6am local time on Dec 31 (back home you guys are at 8pm on Dec 30).

Liz and I were surprised (and happy) to learn that the Dubai airport has free Wi-Fi!!!  (You have to pay for it in Austin, Chicago, and London…).   So, although we haven’t see anything TOO exciting yet, I thought I would post some pictures I snapped from a couple of the airports we’ve been in.    It’s all a part of our trip, right?

Also, my random thought for today – I need to re-learn how to eat…I’ve been having trouble getting food into my mouth ever since we left…  At the hotel in Chicago, I managed to drop a handful of Cheetos, and spilled some of my yummy pizza on our hotel room floor…  Then at the Chicago airport, I spilled a big splotch of yogurt on my brown pants… so I’ve had this giant yogurt spot on my pants for the past two days…lovely.  Also, to add to the list of food I’ve spilled on my pants and now, shirt – more yogurt, pasta complete with tomato sauce, and Fanta…

I’m in desperate need of a shower and a change of clothes…

Anyway…on to the photos…

Here are a couple from this cool hallway in Chicago’s O’Hare airport:

Liz and I were surprised at the tons of people at the Dubai Airport!   When we arrived around 1am, it was so packed in here.  There were people everywhere!  If you would’ve told me it was like 5:00 rush hour time, I would’ve believed you…  I just snapped some photos a little while ago, and even at around 4:30-5am, there are still people walking around all over the place…crazy.

Ok, that’s all from me….  Have a great day!

-B

Are we there yet? No…of course not…

I’m sitting here at the London-Heathrow airport….we arrived at 8am local time, which is 2am central time…  I didn’t sleep much on the plane, and feel like a zombie…

To catch you up on the craziness from last night – it was about an hour before our flight, and I went up to the gate desk to see if they could get Liz and I seats next to one another, and the lady proceeded to tell me that we couldn’t get on that flight…and if we did, we would be stuck in Amsterdam with no ticket to Uganda…it’s a long story, and I argued with the poor woman for over half an hour…  but she won, and I held back the tears from my eyes as I went to tell Liz that our flight had been changed yet again…

We would now be flying through the same cities as originally planned…  Chicago to Heathrow (arriving at 8am today), then leave Heathrow at 1:30pm to arrive in Dubai at 12:30am, then leave Dubai at 6am to Uganda…  So yes, that means we will literally be spending the night at an aiport tonight…  We tried to switch our London-Dubai flight to an 8pm departure, that way we could spend the day in London and would arrive in Dubai tomorrow morning instead of in the middle of the night…but they told us it would cost over 100 pounds…so we passed…

I’m beyond exhausted, physically, mentally AND emotionally… We would have been arriving in Uganda in just a couple of hours, but now we have to tack on an extra 24 hours to that…

Thankfully, after an email, several call attempts via Skype, and a failed text message, we finally confirmed with EWA that we wouldn’t be there on the 31st for our tour of the Entebbe projects…  We’re still waiting to hear back from Sophie’s Motel in Entebbe to confirm that they will pick us up at 2:50pm on the 31st, not the 30th…

Please pray that Liz and I will be able to get some rest on this next flight to Dubai…we board in about a half hour…poor Liz is currently lying down in the lobby chairs in the gate area… and pray that our evening spent in the airport wouldn’t be completely miserable…

It’s getting harder and harder to relax and stay positive…especially since we keep getting problem after problem…and since I’m suffering from lack of sleep…  (we were also just told by an Emirates staff member that they’re not sure where our bags are at this point…)  I tell you what…spending two days without getting any sort of fresh air is tough…

-B