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.