London Calling
We made it to London safe and sound. We left Lilongwe, Malawi at 6:30 am on Friday and arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on time. After a brief layover we departed for Rome. We were delayed in Rome, but arrived safely in London last night around 9:30 pm local time.
After 2 weeks together in Africa, we split ways at Heathrow Airport. Ann, Pat, Tova and Rivcah connected with Pat’s brother Mark, Julia connected with her uncle Leroy, Dale met Andrea and his parents at the Airport, Bob ran to try and catch an earlier flight back to Toronto (to avoid a 12 hour layover) and Dana and I found our hotel (walking around London in the middle of the night with a box containing three 5’ tall wooden giraffes plus all our luggage is no fun!)
It’s quite chilly and overcast in London today, a bit of a change from the warm sunny days spent in Africa. Dana and I are at the (huge) Apple store in Soho right now. (Woohoo, you Macheads would love it, 2 floors of fun!) Sorry that there isn’t a photo with this posting, the photo area of the store is very busy at the moment.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers, and thanks to everyone who has left us comments on this blog over the past 2 weeks, we looked forward to reading them each night before we went to bed. We’ve got lots of pictures, video (about 12 hrs) and many, many stories to share.
It’s been an awesome (among many other descriptions that could be used) experience. Hope each of you are doing well.
Ta Ta for now…
EDIT: We're standing in the Apple store and Dale, Andrea and Dales parents just walked in!
DALE and ANDREA: We're exhausted, time change has been difficult for Andrea but Dale is still running on adrenaline from the Africa trip. See you all in several weeks.
posted by Paul Agius @ 7:23 a.m.
4 comments
4 Comments:
Really appreciate your London posting as I checked in early this morning and zip. Decided to check again and NEWS. Thank you.
WOW... London and a HUGE Apple store and an unexpected meeting with fellow team-members!
Best wishes for safe travel home to the entire team.
Tova and Riv, looking forward to seeing each of you. Have a ton of fun in London. Love D xo xo xo xo
Pat and Ann, beautiful contributions. Best wishes for an enjoyable visit with family in London and for a safe trip home.
Love and Prayers,
Sheamus
“Moni”
How are you both doing?
We received your e-mail thanks. Over here we are all doing well thank God
Believe me, all of us certainly missed your up-dates from Malawi
Paul you’re right; I have to agree, walking the streets in the middle of the night with your luggage is no fun. Enjoy the rest of the trip home you deserve it, in the mean time we are praying for you so you get home safe and sound.
We are proud of both you, and we can’t wait to give a hug
Everyone at home sends lots of love, God bless
Love Mom & Dad
Not sure if you'll get this anymore, but I've got "blog withdrawals" and just had to check one more time. Just glad I had something to read and respond to today. I guess this will be the end of it for real now. Have a great time in London...just smile and wave when people give you and your giraffes strange looks.
Claudia
I'm so happy you guys enjoyed the trip and were able to be such an immense blessing to the people who will spend time at the Village of Hope. It was great to meet with you before the trip, and I look forward to talking to some of you about the trip when I see you again at W.E.
Mark Malloy
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