Travel Days
Hey there! How is everything going there? All is well here. On the 5th we spent all day on the planes mostly. Our first flight was a 2 hour flight into Salt Lake City, Utah, where we switched planes and took a 5 hour flight into New York City. From there we took a 7 hour flight which took us into London. We got into London at about 7:30 am on the 6th and spent about an hour going through customs. It only took about 2 minutes for them to swipe our passports and let us through (having British citizenship was awesome) but about 6 planes landed at the same time and the line was insanely long! We met Peter, Liz's cousin, at Hyde Central Park at 10:00 and he took us on a 6 hour tour of London! It was so amazing! All the building were beautiful and I took about 350 pictures. We got to see so many famous landmarks including Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London, St Paul's Cathedral, Trafalgar's Square, the Eye of London, Westminster Abby and so many more. We had lunch at a nice corner street sushi bar and we went and got drinks at a local pub that Peter used to sell wine to called "The Crossed Keys." Mom got white wine, Peter got Beer, and I got sparkling black currant juice. At 4:00 we had to say out goodbyes to Peter because there was a Tube Strike scheduled for 5:00 and all the trains would be shut down. Peter kind of wanted to get home and Mom and I didn't want to miss out flight which wasn't until 9:15.
At the Heathrow Airport in London, we got through to the airport just fine and we had a nice 7 hour flight to Entebbe. I finally slept for most of the flight (I had only had about 4 since we left the house) and I watched "How to Train your Dragon." It was a really good movie! Anyway, we got into Entebbe and 7:00 am this morning and were picked up by Dr. Michael Kansiime. One of the boxes didn't get put on the plane from London for some reason but it will be coming in tomorrow. Fortunately in was the box with all the Veterinary supplies that we wont need until Thursday that didn't come through and not the one with all of our personal stuff! We got to Dr. Michaels house by 9:15, which is where we are staying, and we got to meet his family, his wife Pamela, she is currently pregnant with there 3rd child, his 5 year old son, Moses, and their 3 year old daughter, Esther. They are also taking care of a orphan named Nimrod, who is 13. He is Michael's mothers brothers son, a cousin I think. Anyway, they fed us pineapple, roast sweet potatoes and tea for lunch and unfortunately, my not taking my Nexium on the plane caught up with me and I was really tired so I went to take a nap. Mom gave the children a Luna bar and some chocolate, we are now their best friends. I also loaded all the photographs from the camera onto the computer, the card reader worked fine. When I got up at about noon I actually felt worse so I had some hot tea and went back to bed until 8:00. We had dinner at 8:30. We had boiled rice and beef, roast sweet potatoes, beans cooked with onions, something they called "greens," and watermelon. After the children were put to bed, mom brought out some "milk-free" chocolate and an bottle of wine which we got at the market on the way to Michael's house (mom told him about all her dietary restrictions so he just took us to the marked to get something she could eat.) We also showed them a bunch of the family photographs that mom put in a slide show. They really want to see more Luke and Anna wedding photographs. Could you send us the link to the Picasa online website? Thank you! Also is there some way that I can send you photos other than by email (it would take forever!) ? Well, its about 11:25 here and we will be going to be soon. We are getting up early to go the the vet school tomorrow and talk with Val and the CVM board about the schedule for the next 10 days. I hope the rest of your day is great and I will talk to you soon! Love you.
Julia and Liz
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