our flight path

Our tickets for Kigali are now officially booked! I'm actually really excited about flying - it will be a nice time on the plane together to sleep, read, pray, and begin to feel like this whole adventure is officially happening.

We have a pretty excellent flight path, thanks to Royal Travel and Tours who book missionary/humanitarian flights. They have been super helpful and I would highly recommend them.

We leave San Francisco the evening of the 19th of Aug and fly directly to London. We have a 7 hour layover there - not too long, not too short to feel stressed out about clearing customs/missing our flight. I don't think we have time to go see London a little, but it's okay. I love the Heathrow airport. There's lots to do. From London we got to Nairobi, Kenya, deplane, reboard, and head on to Kigali. All in all, not so bad. The total flying time is 22 hours and 10 minutes, but we arrive at in the morning of the 21st.

I'm not too concerned about sleeping on the airplane, but Levi is, so please pray that he will be able to adjust and sleep properly to help us get on Kigali time as soon as possible. I don't know if the school has activities planned for us immediately on Friday, but we're the 2nd to last to arrive, so we want to be able to hit the ground running.

the shot list

In case you're thinking of visiting Africa, here are the shots we were told we needed for Rwanda:

-Hep A

-Hep B

-Typhoid

-Yellow Fever

-Polio booster

-Tetanus (in case you're due, which we are)

+Malaria pills

*They also recommend three shots of rabies, but apparently there's a shortage so we can't get them.

For someone who can't even look at needles without getting anxious (me), this is not a comforting list.  I did one on Monday and have at least two to go, pending the discovery of medical records.