catching up - in Uganda

Sorry, it's been a while since I have written. Just too many things going on. I'll start with our camp and work my way up to this moment.

We said our goodbyes on Friday morning then went into camp in Entebbe. We did not do anything hectic. Just going through moves and some running to make sure we maintained our fitness levels. We went to the beach on Saturday night and to the Uganda Wildlife Centre (zoo) on Sunday morning. It was embarrassing how little people know about our country's animals. Girls were calling monitor lizards squirrels and then there was a heated argument over whether a Ugandan bok was a donkey or horse. Really, ladies!!! Even if you have never seen a donkey or a horse before everyone knows that they do NOT have horns!!!

On Sunday at midday, the Minister for Education and Sports came to hotel to hand over the Ugandan flag and to send us off. It was a pretty low key affair but that's what we had expected anyway. We got to the airport and that was where we got a really pleasant surprise. We checked in and as we prepared to go to immigration we were told that Emirates had bumped us up from economy class to business class. Awesome. We got to travel in style. What a nice way to start our journey. We left Entebbe airport at 4.30pm and stopped for one hour in Addis Ababa. From there it was Dubai direct. Before we landed the Emirates cabin crew presented us with a cake for good luck. That was really sweet (both them and the cake). We landed in Dubai at 12.30am. Ok, this is it.