17 March 2011

I do not like breakfast at midnight

So the road to Danja well more like the airplanes to Danja came in 4 parts. Chicago to New York - New York to Paris - Paris to Niamey (capitol of Niger) - Niamey via 6 seater (including pilot) SIM missionary plane to Maradi (second largest city in Niger) - then finally a drive to Danja.  The big time change comes in the flight to Paris. These flights are always this strange disorienting night in fast forward. They feed you dinner, shut the lights off and tuck you in for a nice nights sleep, then a couple hours later, around midnight turn the lights back on break out the coffee and serve breakfast. This always brings up this great dilemma; sleep or coffee.... sleep or coffee.... I choose sleep! Then you land and get off the plane and everyone is alert and just starting the day and its annoying... so I went in desperate search of some coffee and paid like $5 for basically a double espresso and milk. It helped but even more than that finally seeing all the team as we met up at the gate to board the flight to Niger. It was a great reunion!  On to Africa!

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