The Journey Begins

July 2nd 2008 everyone arrived in Denver. Connie and Ryan were kind enough to give me a ride for the half mile ride to get to the Ramada Inn. We arrived early as ryans father had to go to work. This way we learned everyones names only to forget them and relearn them over the next couploe days. (Side note: you can beat the hand held 20 ?'s game with arm pit, beard, and lamp shade.)
After a night of limited if any sleep the group headed to DIA at 4:30 in the morning. The flight was rough going to La Guardia airport in NYC. THen we had to switch to JFK airport and on to South African Airways. While waiting for grass to grow on the runway we me the people around us and then we were off on the first of 2 eight hour flights, this one to Dakar. 2 movies, a few TV shows, adn countless games of chess, caveman, and poker later, we stopped for fuel and a new flight crew.
They also cleaned the plane and then fogged us(brutal). Then we set off again for another 8 hours or so. I traded seats with Ryan and Connie could have a fierce(like a bunny) competition of UNO. I watched more movies , TV and games then finally fell asleep watching a movie. (Just Add Water...could be good but the first 5 minutes were not enough to judge.)
We landed at J-burg just after 5 in the morning where Thuli met us and then we were picked up by Tony and his drivers. Then headed to the hotel. I rode with Tony and didn't get lost like the other vans.
Finally we all got together again and headed to out awesome beds(anything is awesome after 20+ hours on a plane). But we only got to drop off our stuff and then headed out for supper. (Jet-lag is for sissys). I had a monkey Gland burger and it was pretty good with a can o green creme soda.
More to come later!