William and I met Pastor Kevin at Redeemer this morning
around 8:30 to load up the footlockers for the trip in Kevin’s truck, get the
paperwork together that we would need for the mission and hand over the petty
cash that we will need for incidental expenses.
We drove to the airport and met the rest of the team at the American
Airlines check-in counter. We got our
luggage and supplies cecked and then found out that our flight to Dallas would
be delayed by about 25 minutes. This
turned out not to matter much to us, since our Dallas to London leg of the trip
has been delayed by about 3 hours. We
will now arrive in London around 9am local time and only have about an hour
and a half at the most to get to our
terminal, clear security and board the flight to Nairobi. It should be interesting. During our time here at DFW, William was
excited because he found a Bennigan’s and was able to get a Monte Cristo
sandwich, one of his favorites. He met
the rest of us at TGI Friday’s, where we had a leisurely lunch.
The team at DFW TGI Friday's
William's infatuation
The menu looked like it had the British pound
sign next to all of the prices and we had a good laugh at Ralph’s expense when
He asked our waitress what the exchange rate is. Wishful thinking, we still have a long flight
to London ahead of us tonight. This is
the flight that we encourage the team to sleep on as much as possible, since it
will help with overcoming the 8 hour difference between Austin and
Nairobi. We are all very excited to
finally be enroute to this latest mission to bring our vision clinic to the
Springs of Life Lutheran Church in the slum of Kibera. More to follow as our trip progresses.
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