To Uganda we GO!

*I will update more, but this is the first moment I have had a chance to update...this is only a little that I wrote in the airport..sorry it is not much. update more as we go :)

7/04/2011

We made it to Heathrow. We are sitting in the airport waiting for a cheaper rate to travel to central London. The flights today went smoothly. My first flight from DET metro was cancelled, so they put me on a flight that actually got me to Chicago a little sooner. I met up with the girls from the team on the tram between Terminals. Next we flew on British Airways to Heathrow (about 7 hour flight). I sat beside a European couple (Deutschanland). It was very nice, but I didn’t sleep much, surprisingly since I’m so tired. Anyways we arrived in London at about 7:30 a.m. My computer tells me that its about 2:30 in the morning back home. Most of you are sleeping. I wish I had a way to let you know we made it this far safely. We have a layover here for about 14 hours.  So, still a long ways to go, but about halfway done with the flying time.

Happy 4^th of July! We’ve been walking around central London. We saw Big Ben and the outside of Westminster—St. James Park, Buckingham Palace (where we saw the changing of the guard), Picadilly square, found a McDonalds and ate lunch. It’s about 2:00 p.m. here and we are all crashing for a little time to rest. We will probably go see the Tower of London on our way back to the airport.