Our adventure begins

So we made it to Uganda.  What a start to the morning, with heavy snow?  It was a struggle to get to the airport but we made it and everything ran to time.  Turkish airlines were very good to travel with. 

We realised we travelled through 5 different countries within 24 hours - Wales, England, Turkey, Rwanda, Uganda.  Wow!  What a journey!

To say were tired when we arrived was an understatement.

We had a friendly welcome at the airport with Abu picking us up.  He did so well in organising our accomodation while we are in Kampala.  We have a huuuuge room, with our own bathroom facilities and walk in wardrobe!  It's amazing.  The main thing is, there are friendly staff and it is spotlessly clean. 

A quick nap on arriving and we soon had our first visitors - Keren and her daughter.  We brought some goodies out to them.  It was lovely to see them again.

We spent the morning at Watoto church.  We hoped to grab brunch afterwards, but guess what?  Mwanzo's no longer do brunch! :(

So it was a trip to the food court, where Abu got the surprise of his life as the waiters tried touting for business.  Yes, if you've been here, you know exactly what I mean, and if you haven't - you should come and experience it for yourself!

So today we've had a lazy day, trying to sort out phones and internet.  We had a very early wake-up call 5.30am, with a local lady on a speaker preaching to the village!  We really didn't appreciate her timings.  We could just about handle the general noise of the village animals but this was at a totally different sound level! 

We still have no internet at the guest house so have quickly popped to the internet cafe to update everyone that we arrived safely.  Hopefully if we get internet access I can upload some pictures on here and facebook and keep you more regularly updated.

We are getting into Ugandan life with the bartering for special hire taxis.  The Ugandan boda boda drivers find it hilarious that I can say I want to walk in Lugandan, and Lutaaya thinks it's pretty funny too!  This mzungu will not pay mzungu prices!

Hoping to get to do some work out here too, so we'll see where that leads and keep you posted.

Time to go grab some food.............