Safe and Sound and So So Sleepy

We made it! Everything went fairly well but it was a long, tiresome trip with very little sleep since Sunday night. After a long layover, our flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi was delayed for some reason and we nearly missed our final connection to Lusaka via Lilongwe, but we just made it. Our luggage did not, but they were able to get it on a cargo plane yet this afternoon and I already ran back to the airport to get it.

It seems we had become so far removed from Zambia, but we were instantly brought back and it all feels very familiar already. We are so grateful to Jean, Rachel, Kathy and Sophie (and the girls) for a warm welcome, to Soph for a ride to the grocery store and home, and to Ben and Anna for letting us crash at their house for awhile while they are enjoying the holidays away.

We just might set a new mark tonight for the earliest New Years Eve poop-out on record (although we set some impressive ones in the past few years). We will enjoy our third straight new years eve sound asleep in Zambia, but will be thinking of all of you celebrating in the West when we wake up tomorrow.

Happy New Year!!!