FINALLY!

Well, sorry it has been so long since I last wrote...but let's just say it has been an adventure FINALLY getting to Nairobi.

After sitting on a hot, un-air conditioned plane for 3 hours, we found out our flight out of Houston (that was supposed to leave at 4:20)was cancelled on Sunday because of the volcano ash. We finally got to the hotel around 10:30, and after waiting 2 hours for dinner at its restaurant, we got a couple hours of sleep before we had to leave again at 6. Once we got to London, we had to spend the night there before leaving again the next day. We stayed at the Sofitel at Heathrow...suuuupppper swanky. A few of us wanted to explore London for the few hours we would be there (we arrived around midnight and had to be ready to leave at 8), but we found out that it would have been a little expensive and not with our time to take the tube out to the city. Sad day. But since we still felt like being adventerous, a few of us walked around outside the hotel...which essentially was all of the roads around the terminals at Heathrow. We looked pretty lame.

Even though the common theme of the past couple days has been waiting, it has been really neat to see how patient our team has been, all things considering. Mind you, we have been frustrated, but everyone has kept a positive attitude. We arrived to the Gracia House in Nairobi last night around 10 (it's around 8am Wednesday morning as I'm writing this) to 20 or so people hugging and greeting us. It was really touching to see such genuine hospitality, and it finally started to sink in that I am FINALLY in Africa. Gahhhh it's still so surreal to me now, but I am so excited to get the day started so I can get in a routine and really fulfill my purpose here. Today we're headed to some orphanage (maybe?haha) to do a VBS, and I am so pumped to finally be with kids and experience the culture. Tomorrow we will take a flight to Kitale and we'll stay there a couple days.

Sorry this is scattered yet again, but I should have more time to write later tonight. Love you all!