08 December 2016

     Greetings from Mombasa where I arrived today.       

The travel through to Mombasa went well until I had to get my luggage off the KLM flight in NBI.  I had two hours to get through immigration (which was easy!!!) and get from the international to the domestic terminal.  My bag took over an hour to come off and I literally ran across the parking lot to get to the domestic terminal.  In typical Kenyan fashion a Kenyan man offered to help push the cart and get me there.  He was kind, honest and very helpful over all the curbs and bumps.  This is ridiculous and I can't imagine tourists liking it very much.  I had a Kenyan friend on the same flight and she got her luggage and went ahead to hold the plane for me.  So when I got there my boarding pass was ready and I just flew through security and squeezed myelf onto the bus going to the plane.  We had to climb (and carry my heavy hand luggage) up the stairs to the plane.  Half way up the stairs the flight attendants told us the plane was faulty and we had to go back to the gate.  Now I was with my friend and she watched my bag while I changed into lighter clothes.  Wool doesn't work well in Mombasa.  We finally flew and I got home at 3am.  I couldn't go to sleep until 5am.  All day I have slept off and on and feel like I'm in a fog.  I forced myself to go out for 5:30pm Mass as this is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  They had the Mass down in the grotto outside where the Archbishop is buried and that is always nice.      So such is another exciting and eventful story from Mombasa that has a happy ending!!!