Mission Uganda 2012

Well, WE MADE IT!!  We are sitting in Arise Africa Guest House resting until dinner.  I am so overwhelmed with emotion at this amazing journey we have begun.  So far the trip has been fairly easy, however there was a bump in the road!
Katie and Buck are not here just yet, they decided to fly from Ft Worth to Houston and connect with us there instead of having to drive.  Unfortunately the weather was bad and their flight was delayed!  They got on an earlier flight, however their baggage didn't make it, so by the time they figured out what to do about that they missed the check in for our flight.  Thankfully this airline was so accommodating and nice that they moved them to the exact itinerary just a day later.  Please pray for them because we were boarding the plane as they told us they weren't going to make it and I was unable to give them specific instructions.  Katie has traveled quite extensively so I know she has an idea of what to do, and above all I know the Lord has them in His palm.
The flight from Houston to Dubai was LOOOONGGG!! 14 hours!  We were all ready to get off that plane when it landed!  The airport was so nice!  All of the clocks on the walls were Rolex!
We found the shuttle we needed to get on and waited for it to get there, then we walked outside.....suffocation!!!  It was hotter than any Texas summer and Dubai beat the Texas humidity by a long shot!!  Seriously felt like we were swimming! lol!
The hotel was really nice! We checked in (which was a crazy long process!) then went to dinner!  We thought about taking a taxi (which was a mercedes btw! crazy!) but he wanted to take us on a tour, and we were all exhausted and hungry.  We found a really nice place to eat right across the street from the hotel and literally walked for 2 minutes and I was so sticky!  But the place was beautiful, the food was good, we stuck out like sore thumbs cause we sat in the non smoking and didn't partake in the hookah, and cool thing there was a live band!  We didn't realize it till he stopped singing halfway thru our dinner cause he was in with the smokers, but it was cool!
We woke up early had breakfast and then jumped on the shuttle to the airport, ran to find our gate, got there and 20minutes later we boarded!
This flight was much shorter, only 4 hours and 45 minutes! We got off got our visas and then had the awesome job of getting 21 bags!  We got em all, didn't have any problems the whole time with customs and walked outside to meet up with Jason, Kari, Jonathan and the Skows! Yay!!
Got to go grocery shopping and got to see Kari in action bargaining for the exchange rate, and then began the long bus ride to Arise!
When we got here, we unloaded all the luggage and whoops! We accidentally took someones bag! We were only supposed to take 21 bags but accidentally took 22! Sooo we will hopfully be able to send that back with the guy picking Katie and Buck up.
Ok, I know that was long, but I covered alot!  I don't have time to upload any pics right now, some of us have put some on Facebook.  But we will be uploading some tomorrow I am sure!
Love you all and thank you for your continued prayers!!

~~Rachel