Landed in Uganda

Ok everyone, I'm here. I made it. The flight was LONG and made longer when I had to sit by strangers willing to do more than their fair share of talking. The woman on the first flight was headed to Guam to see her "successful" daughter but complained about her not-so-successful daughter who was getting arrested for pot and other things. She was a little too goofy for me--especially when she wouldn't even consider that she may have something to do with her daughter being this way. The second leg of the trip I ended up sitting next to this woman heading to Romania to do some Christian work who admitted she uses Ambien to handle the plane rides and one time took too many. I was waiting for her to take another one and not talk so I could sleep. Then she prayed for me as the plane was landing. Nice lady--just gives too much information.
Had some time in Amsterdam. Became severely discouraged when I exchanged some money for Euros and wouldn't you know that $40 only gets you 20Euros?? Ended up paying something like $14 for a crappy panini and a juice. Then when I went to sit at my gate, there were swarms of white people. There were like 4 or 5 random groups heading to Uganda to help in some way or another. One was a group of young college kids for Invisible Children, another was helping orphans somewhere, aother for AIDS and several missionary groups. One group was going to some villages out west to "evangelize" and save the villagers over there. I got lucky enough to sit just behind them on the plane and got to here them singing (not well either). Thank God they stopped when the plane started to take off. Full flights all the way.
I was rewarded though. I got through customs at record speed and my bags were some of the first to be unloaded. All made it. Ran out of there before the army of mzungus and Charles had a sign with my name on it. We got out before the swarm and into Kampala in record time. I was even able to make the last call at the restaurant--got a really good chicken in coconut sauce. =) Got some sleep, I never sleep through the nights here. Felt good this morning.
Patrick and I ran some errands--got a new stove since our stolen one looks like it never returned. We got a better one this time. Piddled around looking at some of the crafts shops but didn't want to get too carried away--but got some ideas. =) Had lunch and dropped off all the necessary paperwork that needed to go. Exchanged money. It's depressing to see that $1 gives you 1652USH and the Pound will give you 3,000-something. It blows! Anyway, went and tried to buy a propane tank and they almost didn't give it to us. They wanted us to have our own can--well we didn't and how do we get a can if we don't buy and make a deposit. We were about to leave and look someplace else but they decided to give it to us. One tank will last the whole time. And Shell is the only station that can sell. I hear Ft. Portal is out.
Anyway, we head out to Kibale tomorrow. I probably won't get to email for another few days unless we have some time in Fort Portal tomorrow. We aren't leaving until 10 so that traffic can die down. Looking foward to cooling temperatures as it is hotter than hell in Kampala. Nothing else exciting yet. Heading to my favorite Indian restuarant tonight and then it's Ugandan food from here until the end. =) Take care.

Oh my number is still the same as last year. . .I think. I didn't change SMS cards, just added minutes. So it should be 011.256.773.26.3629 for anyone wishing to call.

Talk to you soon. =)