We have arrived back at home after 36 hours of traveling...yikes! We had no troubles checking in at Entebbe, unlike our flight from Nairobi into Uganda. That flight was pretty stressful as the rules about checked baggage allowance were not very clear, and we had to do some last minute shuffling between bags to meet the maximum weight allowance.
The major travel trouble hit when we landed in Nairobi, where we learned that our flight to Heathrow was delayed by about 9 hours. Instead of waiting 2 hours and flying out at midnight, we had to sleep in the Jomo Kenyatta airport and wait for our flight at 8:30 the next morning. It was one of the worst sleeps I've ever had! Perhaps you can understand why from the photo...
We did finally takeoff, however, and we made it to Heathrow in time to catch our original connection back to Vancouver. Unfortunately there wasn't much time between each of the 8+ hour flights...ah well. We landed in Vancouver just after 6pm local time, and had left London at about 5pm local time - we were chasing the sunset the whole way home.
The Vancouver airport is very nice, it always feels good to arrive there from a trip. After taking a cab home and getting a nice hot shower, we settled back into our North American home by ordering Pizza Hut. Mmm...so much grease!
All in all, it has been an amazing trip with many great memories, experiences and new friends. Now all that's left is to reset our body clocks to Pacific Standard time...no telling just how long that will take!
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