After an amazing few weeks of love and send-offs (and some very late nights of last minute details and procrastinated packing), I arrived at the airport Friday to check in for my 11:30am flight. I ended up with two checked bags, a carry-on, and a backpack. The EMI Uganda office asked us to bring some stuff over for them so I carefully packed it all up in my checked bags and they weighed in at 50.0 and 50.5 lbs. Score.

I flew from SA International-> Newark (quick layover) then Newark->Brussels where I met up with the two other Americans going to work for EMI. The flight to Brussels was actually a pretty great red-eye flight that I got about 5 hours of sleep on. I will definitely keep that flight in mind next time I go to Europe!

I wish I could say the same good things about the Brussels-> Entebbe flight but it was loonnng and felt loonng. It also didn't help we had a pit stop in Kilgali, Rwanda and the air conditioning broke so we were delayed and stuck on the plane for almost 2 hours while they fixed it. We got into Entebbe around 12:15am and made our way through customs and immigration to the EMI pick up around 1:00am. It was about a 45 minute drive to our living compound in Kajjansi. More to come on the compound and Kajjansi are but needless to say my American car would NOT have survived the trip (narrow roads, 2 ft craters in the road, etc).

Finally got to bed around 2:30 am almost 31 hours after starting the journey.