AFRICA!!!!

Shit. I thought that I was throught using these damn foreign keyboards! It took me about minutes to write that, making it the most expensive sentance I've ever written.

Now that that's out of the way... I'm here! Colin and I landed at about 7pm last night after what I hope will be one of the longest continuous days of flying that I will ever have to endure. I will leave you to your imagination of the "wonderful" accommodations on the two 6+ hour flights (see crying babies, wrestless neighbors, poor food, and uncomfortable seats for details). And to top off the traveling bit, Colin and I didn't exactly meet up as planned. There happen to be six terminals at CDG, each with separate wings (pun intended). And the only "easy" way to navigate them is by moving on to a connecting flight or leaving the airport. So the plan of meeting at my arriving gate didn't exactly work out since my gat was only used for arriving airplanes. Oh yeah and the gates/terminals are all connected by an intricate bus system. Eventually we met up at our connecting flight gate with some time to spare (4 hours before our flight) and did a little catching up.

After a long 7 hours of sleeping and being woken up multiple times by a rather attractive flight attendant, who must have thought that I was mentally challenged when it came to French, we made it to Lome! Little did we know that our adventure had yet to begin!