Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A Night In London

Rwanda Update: 11/16/09 10:45 GMT
We made it to London! We made it into London this afternoon and bussed to our hotel. We are staying here overnight and will leave for Nairobi and then Kigali tomorrow evening. (Another red eye!) Everyone from the team made it here as well as all of our luggage. We had a team meeting this afternoon where we got introduced to each other, worshipped together and heard more details about the trip. We are getting more and more excited about getting there and getting started with things. We will be trained tomorrow morning on how to run the eye glass clinics.
After the team meeting we had a some time to walk around London and find dinner. A group of nine of us went to the Westminster area which was absolutely gorgeous at night. We come up from the London underground right under Big Ben. We saw the Abbey and the parlimentary buildings and the London Eye. So huge!! It is a ferris wheel that sits beside the Thames river and holds like a thousand people at a time. It costs a fortune to ride and wasn't open tonight but still fascinating.
We finally found a little Italian place to eat dinner together. It had "Godfather" pictures up all over the walls. Funny. I had a Jacket Potatoe with chili which meant a baked potatoe with chili on it. Others at our table where very confused at what a "crisp" versus a "chip" was and which ones meant they were getting fries. Sounds like a great "Italian" place right? :)
Please pray for a good night's sleep tonight. It is nearly 11pm and I'm feeling weary but not tired yet. Only had about 4 hours sleep at this point so I need to crash. Also pray for our layover in Nairobi tomorrow. It is a quick layover and evidently it is a confusing and crowded airport.
Hope to send updates in Rwanda! Love you all.
Caris for the Power Girls

2 comments:

Jono said...

Happy travels! Looking forward to following your trip via blog!
P.S. Some friends from Mosaic just moved to Kigali a couple months ago to work at the Kigali International Community School! Small world :)

Jono said...

P.S. previous post was from Amy, not Jono - forgot I was signed in under his account!