Stranded

So, the title gives a little bit of it away...am I in africa? no. :( Our itinerary has been jumbled up a bit...our flight left today at 3:30 and we weren't on it...why, you might ask? because we have no passports. We had to send them to the embassy for our visas and they apparently mailed them back, but we have yet to receive them. Hopefully the mail is just slow and they haven't been lost or fallen out of a mail truck or eaten by a ferocious dog... so for the time being we have been super blessed and Lance talked to like the president and CEO of American Airlines was able to work it out so that our flights were moved to the next available ones(which isn't until the 31st) without incurring any of the fees for changing flights.
Soooo... for the next week, we have some time to just hang out with each other and really build some unity. So by mid next week we will be off to africa hopefully we get our passports by then, and will have bonded enough to finish each others sentences, wear each others clothes, order each others food, pick each others nose, and shower together. ok. definitely not the last one, and maybe not the one before that either. But i'm pretty sure this time has been set aside as a time for us to spend preparing for our journey so that we will be ready for anything! and can just hit the ground running... or walking briskly--because packing lightly was a bit of a challenge for our group and well... let's just say we had the scale out last night and had to move things from bag to bag in order to make everyone's bag meet the weight limit...yes, our team has a bit of a weight problem... if you know what i mean! So, peace out and until then, we'll be breaking into every post office between here and the embassy. or not.

Crista