Aug 3 - 5

Friday, August 3

Anyone from outside of the Greater Toronto Area arrives...

4 from Halifax: Alwyn, Johanne, Maria, and myself
1 from Thunder Bay: Maribeth
1 from Swift Current: Shayla
1 from Calgary: Shirley
1 from Yellowknife: Gerri

We stayed overnight at a nice hotel - last chance for a Canadian meal and sleep in a comfy bed (with adjustable firmness!).


Saturday, August 4

This photo was taken the following morning. Can you guess who is who?

From here we were picked up by the airport shuttle.  Departure from Toronto Airport scheduled at 10:15 a.m. ....but we had lots of "bonding time" as we sat on plane until 2 p.m. .... then finally up in the air with Ethiopian Airlines!

Sunday, August 5

Stopover in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - beautiful and green all around - on the ground for less than an hour (just long enough to make 1 post on facebook with the free wireless internet available....oh what a treat wireless internet is!!!)

We landed in Dar es Salaam at 1:25 p.m. (or thereabouts) with more than half our luggage missing.... the disappointment was soon dissolved by the warm greeting we had from our Tanzanian team outside the gate :)