May 28 Travel to Dallas

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.