Sunday, July 31, 2011

When Life's a Stretch

Sometimes even the simple things can stretch you.
That's a tall drink of water...
For a giraffe, getting a drink takes some work. You have to make sure nothing (like a hungry lion, for example) is going to pounce on you while you're bent in half just trying to make ground level. Or is that water level?

For the Mercy Tech Team, the stretching came in the Paris airport when Customs decided that they didn't like the mechanics wrenches in Todd's carry-on bag (those are "spanners" to you Brits). Our flight was already boarding, yet Todd had to retrace his steps and put the tools through as checked baggage. With Rick and Ed waiting anxiously at the gate, he made it back just in time to be one of the last passengers on the plane.

But of course, that's not the end of it. The bag never got on the flight, and we chewed a few more fingernails while it slowly made its way to White River, South Africa a few days later.

But all is well, and after a bit of tool and grocery shopping (and a trip to Kruger Game Park) we are now ready to fly out to Mozambique. Our flight will leave around 8am tomorrow morning (Monday August 1st) via a Cessna 310 piloted by Paul Middleton of Mercy Air. We should be arriving in Chimoio just after lunch, and then it's on to the ASAM farm and camp life for a month.

We are well and anxious to begin our work. Please keep us in your prayers as we move on to the next phase of our journey.

I'll leave you with a few photos of our time in both Paris and in the game park. Lord willing, our next post will be from Mozambique itself.
Is this my good side?
Let's go, Baboo. It's only a bunch of cheap Canadian tourists...
Ed and Todd having second thoughts about sleeping in tents for the next few weeks.
"It's just the Eiffel tower, Ed..."
600 steps and still breathing...
A couple of art critics
Does not play nicely with other children...

1 comment:

  1. Excellent pictures, excellent post! Did you think, "Nan wouldn't like this" while you were biting your nails in the Paris airport? :)

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