So I have safely (and finally) arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. It was one of the longest travel days on the Race to date. Let me start before the beginning. Saturday afternoon, I decided to take a nice warm shower so I'd be clean for travel days (because nothing makes you feel nasty like an airport). The shower in our room was cold so I took one using the hall bathroom. It went well until I left the bathroom. For those of you who don't know, I have a cyst on the end of my tailbone (its called a Pilondial cyst). Well as I was stepping out of the room I had the thought that I was going to slip and I did just that. My feet flew out from under me and I landed straight on it. I sat on the floor for a few minutes before I could move. All I could think was, "Please don't let anyone I know walk by!" Ok so Fast forward to Sunday morning at 3:30. We get to the airport at 4:30. It doesn't open til like 5:30. We get checked in and all and find out our flight is delayed. My butt is beyond sore and swollen. It hurts to sit, stand up, sit down, sneeze, use stairs, etc. Several friends give me pills but they don't really help. The airline tells us that because our flight is delayed that they are providing breakfast so we have to go back through security to the restaraunt. We eat. Then go back through security. A few hours and more delays later, they feed us lunch so we have to do the security thing again only this time there are 5 lines with over 100 people in each line. -_- Finally get back through. We sit there til 6 pm. Then we fly to Bahrain (5 hour flight). We land and get off that plane to find we have 20 min til our next flight leaves. As we run through the airport, we see a Chili's, Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, etc. Why couldn't we be stuck there for 10 hours?! So we get on the plane; another 5 hours. The flights are murder on my bum. At one point I am ready to cry because it hurts so bad. Anyways, we finally land in Nairobi at around 3 am. We get through customs, get the bags, load and get on the bus, and head to the hostel. I went to bed at 5:30 am and woke up for breakfast at 9 am. Thank God there is a nurse on the squad and she gave me pills that actually help.
We will be in Nairobi for about a week. Then we head to Bungoma. While in Nairobi, we are on lockdown because of some conflict with Somalian militia people. Don't worry! I am safe. We are across the street from the Dept of Defense and they are keeping an extra eye on us. It was a heck of travel day but I really like Kenya so far. The weather is good and the people are friendly. I am looking forward to this month. However, we have 2 more people on the squad going home so please so a prayer for them. Ok that's it for now. Love you guys.
