They are my babies!-August 3rd, 2012

Today we woke up early, packed our bags and were out of the hotel by 8 am. We made our way down the street and to the train station. On our way we passed a strange man who had these animals, at first it startled Trisha and she was like "OMG!What is that!?" and the man seemed a little irritated and said "It's a Farret!" "I have another one in my bag" "They're my babies!" We all walked away laughing and couldn't quit repeating the conversation. We arrived at the train station and found the train we needed to be on. Once we made it to the airport we unloaded the train and made our way to our gate. We had plenty of time so we looked around and ate before we had to board. After we departed we had a 5 hour flight to Sudan where we made a quick stop to let people off and then we continuted to Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. We got off to make our connecting flight. The plane wasn't at a terminal so we had to get on the runway and board a bus to take us to the terminals. Well some how a group of us girls got on the wrong bus and it took us to baggage claim and we tried to walk to the terminal after realizing we werent suppose to be there. But this lady stopped us and we were all worried we werent going to make it because we had less than an hour to get to our plane. After about ten minutes a bus finally picked us up and took us to the right terminal, we felt reliefed. The airport was a little different than we were used to because the airport wasn't as spacy as the other ones and seemed a little run down. We sat and relaxed for a bit, but before we knew it we were on our last plane to Mombasa! After we landed we collected our bags and were met at the airport by some of the Elective Africa staff. We met Issac, who was our program coordinator and helps us when things go wrong. By this time it was about 2 am.