TIA!!!

All my weekend men, we few we happy few will immediatly recognize what I am refering to in the title. THIS IS AFRICA!. While I am happy to be back in the bundu let me relate some of my perils of the day. Actually I will start with yesterday.

I arrived in heathrow and had to claim my bags and process through customs since they had not been checked through to Kenya. Not enough time to go into London proper...hopefully on the way back more time although both my friends who used to work at Heathrow no longer work there.

Anyway boarded the completely packed Virgin Atlantic flight for Nairobi on time and had a plesant enough neighbor for the flight. The food was poor and for a flight that left at 7:30, I did not get my meal until after 10:00. Others around me were fed, just not me. Then they came by at 1:00 am with some type of breakfast...perhaps trying to make up for the late dinner with an early breakfast. At any rate, we made good time and were on final approach to Nairobi, wheels down, flaps down when suddenly the FEMALE captain applied power and circled the airport. I thought there was a problem with the landing gear and they were burning or dumping fuel, but NO..SHE said it was too foggy to land. After circling for about an hour and a half during which time she indicated there was only 15 minutes of fuel left, she decided to take us to land in Mombasa (also in Kenya, but miles from Nairobi). Once there she said we would refuel and wait for good weather. Go figure, I could see the ground fine. I think Mombasa was low on fuel or perhaps the credit card for Virgin Atlantic was refused because it took forever. We finally took off and landed in Nairobi about 4 hours late.


Then I got in the slow line for a visa. Wait, both lines were slow! TIA TIA TIA Then after I got my bags I went out into the arrival lounge and saw lots of people, just no Zach or Paul. TIA TIA TIA.

They decided since my flight was delayed they would go into town to get a few supplies. They were delayed when the had to wait for the presidential motorcade to go by TIATIA

Anyway enough grousing. I really am glad to be here. Zach is doing well and Paul is a great host. More blogs later...TIA