We made it! After an absolute marathon of travel...we made it to Kigali safe and sound today around noon (rwanda time, which is 7 hours ahead of Central time). It brought back reminders of 35 hour bus rides to Mexico, although this time...we had our own seats, pillows, great meals, movies (when they were working :), and bathrooms that worked. It really was one of the most comfortable flights i have ever been on. Why Ethiopian air fly from NWA to Cincinnatti? that's my real question...
Today was a day of rest. We have definately not entered into the "roughing it" state yet. We have been eating at good restaurants, staying at a hotel, traveling in a great bus. It really has been calm and pleasant...good thing too because we are pretty wiped. All day has felt like we stayed up all night at a lock in, and then took a 2 hour nap. the rest of the day is this endless haze of weird tiredness. thats us. Definately motivating us to go to bed early (new record! Colin Jackson, Ryan Schatzman, and Ty Nafziger in bed by 8:30!) They said it could never be done...anything is possible in africa though.
I will continue to check in daily with a brief update of how the day went via the blog. that of course assuming that the internet is going to be working great and always available (good luck with that one).
Keep us in your prayers for the next 2 days. we are in the team training and educational piece of our time where we are going to the genocide museums and genocide churches. Both of these are horrible, yet important things to give us accurate perspective.
We love you all! Pray for us!
Matt and the Team
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