Away we go!!!!

Well, amazingly its time! We are all packed...quite the process as I am taking a bunch of stuff over for my friends!!!! TODAY IS THE DAY!!! Our flight leaves in five hours! CRAZY. We have two over night flights: tonight LAX to Amsterdam and then eight hours layover in Amsterdam tomorrow, then overnight and over New Years- to Nairobi, Kenya, then a short flight to Entebbe, Uganda where my friends will pick us up on January 1st, 2008!!!! Pray for our flights and safety and healthiness and our luggage to make it safely and entirely!!! So, the next blog will be from Uganda!! Bon Voyage to us!!! So excited!!!

Flying High!!!

For my b-day present from Sara, she got a guy from her church to take us flying for the morning!!! Anyone who knows me knows that I love airplanes.. especially the little ones! This one is similar to the one I took lessons in. We flew out of Long Beach airport and then up to Big Bear Mountain and landed for breakfast! Then took off and headed to the coast and flew past Oceanside and landed again in Long Beach. Sara had never been in a four seater plane and loved it, I told her its the best ever!!! Anyway... this will be my favorite b-day for a while! It was a beautiful day flying through the clouds!

Uganda Here We Come!!!

Its only 25 days till we leave for Uganda!!! We went and got all our shots today, a little sore, but good to go! And we bought our plane tickets...so its definitely official- we leave December 30th and fly from LA to Amsterdam than from Amsterdam to Kenya as it becomes 2008 (we can keep celebrating in each time zone!), then on to Entebbe, Uganda!!!! My friends live in Kabale at the very southern end of the country, right over the boarder is Rwanda. I was able to talk with my friend Renee in Uganda on the phone for like an hour and get a bunch of details figured out. So exciting! One new part of the plan is that after Sara leaves on the fifteenth of January, I will be spending about three weeks traveling to different cities in Northern and central Uganda with a lady who runs Children of Hope (similar to a world vision kind of thing but with a lot more discipleship focus too). One of the cities I will be in is Gulu, and some others. I'll then spend one of the weeks with them in Kampala helping them get ready for the kids to go back to school. Another new cool thing I worked out is that when I leave in March, I got my layover in Nairobi, Kenya to be for three days so I can visit with Shayla (good friend and former super Sunshine volunteer) she is in Kenya for nine months and will still be there!!!! I'm so excited to see her and what she's been up to in person! Another city we will be in for a few days at the very beginning of our trip is Jinja (the source of the Nile) -Sara and I are going to be the child care/ entertainment for six missionary kids while my friends and the other parents are in meetings at this resort they go to once a year. I think those are the main details that have been arranged so far and I'm sure there will be lots more surprises and adventures to come! I can't believe its so soon! Crazy!