Africa!
Yesterday morning
The last week and particularly the last three days have been a blurrrrrr. We marathoned the house and have been working non stop since last weekend. Today (Monday Jan 8) I left for Africa after quite possibly the craziest day I have ever had in my life. The realtor, her assistant, a painter, and a photographer all showed up at 9am and everyone wanted access to the same rooms of the house. The only problem is that we where not finished yet, not to mention I still was not packed and we had a three year old and a two year old running around. We stayed up until 2am last night working on the house and packing and still had to get up early to keeping working. I literally worked until the last second I had to leave.
At Chicago
It has been nuts so far. Chicago was a zoo and I had to not only change planes but go to a different terminal (and go through security again) to find out that my plane was in an isolated part of the airport without any services (food etc). Normally this would not have been a problem except I have not eaten anything but a mini pizza all day…and come to think of it I missed lunch and dinner yesterday as well. Oh well, I will eat sooner or later.
OK first item of business. Which cd’s did I get? I went with the postal service (great pick Pete!) and a wildcard that I saw at the store and remembered I had wanted. It was a Moby cd. I tried to download Coldplay live from itunes but it kept screwing up and I didn’t have time to mess with it.
Over the North Atlantic
My watch says its midnight but the airplane clock says its 6am. We are nearing Ireland which makes me feel better. We had some bad turbulence out in the middle of the Atlantic that was unnerving. The whole time movies kept running through my head. First I kept thinking of Castaway with Tom Hanks but then after convincing myself I could survive a plane crash over the North Atlantic I remembered Titanic. Youuuu knowwww, the movie where everyone in the water of the North Atlantic freezes to death. These are the things I have been pondering. It does not help that one whole channel on the airline tv is survival stories.
I did have had some serious thoughts in between random musings. I am reading a great book that is getting my mind moving, more on that later. As far as the trip goes, so far so Good.
Recent**
I just got to Kenya. I now have a 12 hour layover until I arrive in Mwanza. I am working on bootlegged wifi. I will update more later. All is well so far.
The last week and particularly the last three days have been a blurrrrrr. We marathoned the house and have been working non stop since last weekend. Today (Monday Jan 8) I left for Africa after quite possibly the craziest day I have ever had in my life. The realtor, her assistant, a painter, and a photographer all showed up at 9am and everyone wanted access to the same rooms of the house. The only problem is that we where not finished yet, not to mention I still was not packed and we had a three year old and a two year old running around. We stayed up until 2am last night working on the house and packing and still had to get up early to keeping working. I literally worked until the last second I had to leave.
At Chicago
It has been nuts so far. Chicago was a zoo and I had to not only change planes but go to a different terminal (and go through security again) to find out that my plane was in an isolated part of the airport without any services (food etc). Normally this would not have been a problem except I have not eaten anything but a mini pizza all day…and come to think of it I missed lunch and dinner yesterday as well. Oh well, I will eat sooner or later.
OK first item of business. Which cd’s did I get? I went with the postal service (great pick Pete!) and a wildcard that I saw at the store and remembered I had wanted. It was a Moby cd. I tried to download Coldplay live from itunes but it kept screwing up and I didn’t have time to mess with it.
Over the North Atlantic
My watch says its midnight but the airplane clock says its 6am. We are nearing Ireland which makes me feel better. We had some bad turbulence out in the middle of the Atlantic that was unnerving. The whole time movies kept running through my head. First I kept thinking of Castaway with Tom Hanks but then after convincing myself I could survive a plane crash over the North Atlantic I remembered Titanic. Youuuu knowwww, the movie where everyone in the water of the North Atlantic freezes to death. These are the things I have been pondering. It does not help that one whole channel on the airline tv is survival stories.
I did have had some serious thoughts in between random musings. I am reading a great book that is getting my mind moving, more on that later. As far as the trip goes, so far so Good.
Recent**
I just got to Kenya. I now have a 12 hour layover until I arrive in Mwanza. I am working on bootlegged wifi. I will update more later. All is well so far.
posted by Paul at Tuesday, January 09, 2007
1 Comments:
Hi Paul,
We've enjoyed your updates here in the office and just want you to know that you're in our prayers. Please give our love to the Millers and you all take care.
Susan Beebe
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