London to Nairobi

We got through security at Heathrow with only a little delay here and there. One of our autorefractors got a close examination but was allowed through. Some of us had water bottles that we were able to refill at a special filling station. Many airports around the U.S. have these too.  After spending. $3 or more, it's a little bit of a relief to get a free refill. 

We boarded the plane right on time and have already been served water and a snack.  Lunch should appear soon. Anything but chicken curry, please!  We'll, it was chicken, but at least not curry. I had lunch and then a short nap. I'm sitting on this flight with Thomas, a Concordia DCE student who is doing his internship at Salem.   He is excited to be on his first Kenyan mission.  Salem always does a great job with driving home the fact that mission and being a DCE should go hand in hand.

We're about 5 hours from Nairobi as I write this.  If the past is any guide, we'll arrive and spend an hour or more clearing Customs and Immigration and claiming our baggage. Then, we'll board buses and take about an hour getting to the convent we will call home for the next week, the Little Daughters of St. Joseph.  Tomorrow morning the teams will go to one of several attractions and then have lunch. The Salem teams are driving to their clinic locations tomorrow afternoon as well. Hopefully,  after a full day of activities we will all get a decent night's sleep.  I'm sure the choices for tomorrow morning will include a photo safari at the Nairobi National Game Park,  maybe a trip to the Elephant Orphanage or possibly the Karen Blitzen Museum.  We'll make the decisions about who is doing what around  midnight and then be up bright and early for a quick breakfast and saddling up.

We are now about 40 minutes from landing. I hope we shoot through the process, but with 2 large teams traveling together that's probably not realistic.