Safely in Kigali

We arrived in Kigali safely last night after 2 delays and 1 flight cancellation... WE MADE IT!!!!!!!



We flew from Vancouver to Amsterdam to Nairobi, then stopped by Burundi (but didn't get off the plane) then FINALLY to Kigali. What an adventure!



When we got to Amsterdam, we trained into DT and spent couple hours strolling there. There were so many tourists!!!! Many people were riding bikes- whether in dress shoes or runner, and dresses or casual clothes. The canal was as beautiful as it was when I was there with my family 2 years ago. Unfortunately, the flowers had not bloomed yet on the floating flower shops.

We then flew from Amsterdam to Nairobi. Since our flight was delayed, we walked quickly to our next gate upon arrival only to discouver that our flight from Nairobi to Kigali was CANCELLED!!! We waited in the airport from 7:30am to 12:30pm only to be faced with more delays. When we finally landed in Kigali, my heart leaped with excitment, but my body yearned for some sleep.

We arrived at our hotel called Beausejour. It's beautiful here. The landscape is green with those flat trees that you see in movies like Lion King! I can't believe we are here. People are extremely friendly here and try to help us as much as possible. Our rooms are so nice too! We each have our own rooms with our own bathrooms and a basin for showering. We were all so happy to have a warm shower last night. My room has 2 beds- one of which I use to put all my clothes on.

We had dinner at Hotel Chez last night. I had grilled fish with mushroom sauce, fries, rice, and veggies. Also had a passion fruit juice. Was very good. Tasted like an asian meal from Richmond hahaha

I faced my first bug attack last night. There were a couple dozen ants eating a piece of dirt when I got home last night from dinner. Of course, knowing me, I panicked. But I remembered I had bug repellent in cream form... so I encircled them with the repellent. Good news... the repellent works as the ants could not get out of the little circle I made around them. Bad news... they were still alive and panicking as well and repelled by the smell of the cream. So I took all my courage and used toilet paper and wiped up the cream and ants combo and ran to the toilet and flushed them down! All safe... well, UNTIL I saw a spider beside my clothes this morning. Maybe... I need to learn to co-exist with these things called bugs...

Anyways, breakfast time. Woke up at 6:30am this morning because my room is facing the road and traffic was noisy and made me all paranoid.