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Hey Everyone...

I made it home yesterday... Safe and sound and a day later than planned... Our flight was late from Amsterdam and so we missed our flight out of D.C. It would have been close anyway.... but when we were late it wasn't even close... our flight got in ten minutes after our next flight was supposed to leave...

So we tried to go and get another flight, but the only one available was at Reagan(across town 40 minutes away) at 8PM , and it was 7PM when we worked this out... So, we grabbed a taxi and tried to make it... The guy had told us it was a Delta flight, but when we got there the lady said it was a Northwest flight, and NWA is in a different terminal, so we caught a bus down to the next terminal, but alas, we were too late... At this point we were tired a bit frustrated, but the NWA guy, Ben was super nice and helpful. He set us up with new flights leaving the next morning at 6:40AM to MN... Since it was a technical problem with the plane being late, they put us up in a local Hilton motel, and gave us vouchers for supper and breakfast... and we got a free shuttle to the airport... It was glorious... :)

I was able to get a good transfer flight to DSM and was home by 11:30 AM, only about 12 hours later than what I was originally supposed to, and a whole lot more rested...

So, anyways, I am home now, beginning to try to get my body to adjust back to my normal time... although my body thinks I'm still in Uganda.... ;) I'm really tired right now because it's the middle of the night there..

I've gotten most of my stuff unpacked and now it's just sorting through it all and trying to know where to put it... catching up on stuff from the last four months and trying to know where to start in telling stories...

Just like going to Uganda, the way things have been coming back different things have surprised me than what I expected. I had thought about things and different things that would surprise me, but a lot of what expected to surprise me hasn't and other things I hadn't expected, has... but that's all part of the process...

Anyways, I'm sure I'll have more to say later... if you have any questions you want to ask, just email me and maybe I can blog about it for everyone...

well... back to cleaning up...

Justin