Alright.. we're finally here. annnnnd we finally slept. Friday night Jordan took us to the atlanta airport arriving at about 2 AM. We waited there until our 5:45 flight to Washington D.C. From DC we flew 13 hours via Ethiopian Airlines. That was the roughest part so far thanks to the middle seat in a row of three. We arrived in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with little idea of what time it was where we were or what we looked like... which was rough.. we then jumped on a third plane from Addis Ababa to Entebbe Uganda. That was about a two hour flight.
But all the flying and waiting has already proven worth it! Once we got to Uganda there stood a 6'5" white guy in the middle of about 50 relatively short black men. This was Jachin! Jessie and I knew Jachin from Toccoa Falls and he was incredibly refreshing to see! He picked us up from the airport and took us to Uganda Christian University where Scully's live, and where we're staying throughout the trip. We got here at about 3pm local time and spent the evening relaxing and walking around the university. Fresh pineapple, fresh guacamole, a local rugby tourney and monkey's in a tree ( http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/detail/275948419_351430 ). It's been cool. Also, Dale took me to the ATM where I withdrew $200,000. Hopefully the US will just skip the details and let me convert that dollar for dollar when we get home. We've now gotten 8 or 9 hours of sleep and are recharged and ready to go!
Today we're going to ride with a local pastor to a more remote village for today and tomorrow. This is who the WELL had put us in contact with, so we're very excited to meet him and go see the country.
I'm taking lots of pictures and I'll put those up throughout the weeks I think.
thanks for all your support friends!
-Nick Duke
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