Traveling to Ghana

This year our fight from Dallas was at 8 am. In stead of waking up at zero in the morning and riving to Dallas we stayed at some friends house. We left Saturday, July 19 at 3:09 pm.

• 3 min driving to HEB for gas


• 10 min getting gas


• 10 min driving to Uncle Darryl's to get a memory card to the camera


• 3 hr 11 min Driving to Dallas


• 33 min eating at El Chico


• 7 min Driving our friends house
  

We got to their house at 7:13 pm. For a total of 4 hr 4 min.

We then left at 6:20 am Sunday, to give ourselves time to check in.

• 15 min driving to the airport


• 27 min checking in and going through security


• 42 min waiting to get on the plane


• 33 min waiting for the plane to take off


• 3 hr 9 min flying to New York City


• 14 min waiting to get off the plane


• 4 hr 8 min at the airport


• 2 hr 24 min waiting for the plane to take off


• 10 hr 7 min flying to Ghana


• 12 min waiting to get off the plane


• 56 min at the airport going through security and getting our luggage


• 1 hr 55 min driving to Village of Hope
  

We arrived at VOH at 10:22 am Ghanaian time (5:22am) Monday. We traveled for 23 hr 2 min on this leg, making a total of 27 hr 6 min total travel time.

The first flight was in a very small plane, daddy could almost touch the roof with his head. That flight was a nice flight. The second flight was not so great. There were TVs in it though so we watched the movies that were on, 21 and some stupid movie about a guy and a girl who are divorced but the guy still loves her. In one of the previews she asks, "where did you learn to fly an airplane?" he says, "PlayStation." I can't remember what it's called. They were both not movies I would have chosen but they took up time. After the second movie we slept some. Daddy slept more than me. My stomach started feeling weird. I thought it was just the cokes I had so I drank a bunch of water. About two hours before we landed I started feeling nauseous. I got this squirty stuff and put it on my wrists and rubber them together. It's supposed to make you not nauseous, but I think I took it too late. I started looking in the pockets of the seats for a bag but there wasn't one. So I through up in my mouth, and went to the bathroom but there was a line, so I went to the other end and they were full and I couldn't ask the flight attendant for a bag because I had my mouth full. He sent me back to the other bathrooms and a lady came out. I went for it, she was trying to tell me that there was some one on the other side, but I made some motions and she understood. I felt much better after that. Breakfast came, there was a banana in it. I thought that would be good so I nibbled on it some. I realized that wasn't a good idea, but too late, the attendant is cutting off my row. The food came in a box so I used that. Also once more before we landed. I normally don't get motion sickness but 10 hours is way too long to be on a plane and I had been up way too long. I'd much rather do the switching airports in London than a 10 hr flight again.

Wednesday a church group of 25 will come to VOH so daddy and I are staying in the guest room at the kids homes. Daddy's in one house and I'm in the other. We moved all our luggage to daddy's room and then went to see people. Lunch was to be an hour later so we went to sort out our luggage.

We got all of our luggage!!!! I was so glad. The first bag we sorted through was fine, everything was there and packed just like we packed it. The second bag had a "this bag was searched" card in it. That was from the US side, and the bag still looked the way we packed it and had everything we put in it. The third bag had obviously been ruffled through and there was a big "hole" where something should have been. The fourth bag was also ruffled through. This year as a precaution for my bag only matching 82% and NOT being my bag, we printed out lists of what was in the suitcases and put in the suit case and carried another one. We used the list to make sure that everything was there. Everything was in the fourth bag but not everything was in the third bag. Some lotion we were going to give Lawrence's wife, and the bag of skittles were gone. There was some random tank top with the tag on that we did not bring, in the bag. But most importantly the laptop we brought over here for a friend was stolen!!! Daddy and I are pretty sure that it got stolen here on this end because the first two bags we opened came around the baggage pick up by each other. But the last two came quite a bit later. We've talked to a couple of people here about what to do about it. Araba, the operations officer, is trying to talk to Delta about it. Daddy think that maybe our travel insurance will pay us for the loss. I was so looking forward to being done with the airport till we left...

We still haven't slept yet, I feel like I'm on a boat now. We're staying up till at least supper so we hopefully will sleep through the night.

I just found out that Ghana is not having anymore power outages! That is going to make it much easier to work on the computers.