Home in a day

It is 10 PM in Tanzania and we will be home in about 24 hours.  All are happy to go.  We are at the airport, checked in, luggage checked, chilling by the AC and sippin' RC Cola.  Wait, that is a different song.

We awoke this morning to rain.  It rained through the night.  By the time we left Wista, the rain had stopped.  Our plan was to go to Slipway then to Bongoyo Island for some sun.  It was cloudy all day and the ferry was not running to the island. 

OK, we can deal with that.  Hang around Slipway, eat lunch and go to to Coco Beach on Oyster Bay.  Cool.  Kulwa, our driver, had noticed a couple of the tires on the bus were bad and Dennis told him to get them fixed.  Good idea!  Kulwa said he would pick us up at 2 PM.  Great!  Three pleasant hours.  Of course, TIA.

We did some shopping.  Well, Deepthi and Chandra did some shopping.  We think they can get it all on the plane.  At 12:30 we had lunch.  There is a nice restaurant with great pizza, and it was too.  Two o'clock rolled around, but no bus.  We wandered around the Slipway.  We had already had our gelato before lunch.  Yummy!  Always have dessert before you eat your meal or you might not have room.

I called Kulwa.  Airtel serves had quit suddenly awhile before.  It still is not back on line. I used Laura's Mwamoody phone.  "Ten minutes," he said.  Ten turned into 20, then 40.  At 60 minutes I called him.  The traffic had tied him up for the hour.  He did arrive in another hour, but now there was no beach time left.

We could deal with that.  We went to Sea Cliff and had a great meal.  Even dessert.  Everyone (well, two of us, one of whom shall remain unnamed, me being the other one) was a bit skitterish after the long wait for Kulwa.  I think he was too.  He endorsed leaving the Sea Cliff about 7 PM. We got here with over four hours to spare.  Hmmm.  Better that than heart attack from a traffic jam.  (No chest pain at all in the end.)

So here we are as close to home as we can be without having boarded the plane.  In a short time we will board and fly faster than time for eight hours and be home by 12:30 PM.

Looking forward to cold weather and warm family!