The Flight Has Been Booked

Well, today we received our Visa's and Darren has booked our flight for Tuesday, October 3rd. We will be flying out on Lufthansa Airlines and arrive in Germany with a two hour layover prior to going to Lagos. We will have to spend the night in Lagos before heading to Port Harcourt via O'Warri Airport. The Port Harcourt Airport is still closed for repairs so flying to O'Warri will put us a few hours from Port Harcourt but with traffic I'm sure it will take us much longer to get to our final destination at the Residential Area. This will be a very interesting trip regardless, as we will have our two young daughters and two cats. We're a little weary of the Lagos Airport since it's much larger and more traveled than the Port Harcourt Airport and with the airport closed for repairs the Lagos and O'Warri Airports will be much more crowded. The Nigerians love children and they let families traveling with young children go to the front of the lines and the airports etc so I'm sure we won't have to much of a bad time. I've tried to explain to our children about the guards with the large guns to prepare them for what they will see, not sure it's sinking in though. Trying to explain that there are No Wal-Marts, Targets or McDonalds is proving to be a task also. I explained to them not to say anything out loud for fear they may offend someone, so I've told them if they have questions or comments to whisper them in my ear like it's a secret, I hope this works because I'm sure they will have lots of questions/remarks on what they will see and witness.

I'm not sure when I'll get to update the Blog, our PC's are in our Air Frieght and there is and Embargo on all Air Frieght to Nigeria right now due to so many coming in. We may get out Sea Freight before our Air Frieght which really doesn't happen.

Still in Holding Pattern

Well, it's Tuesday, September 19th and we still don't have our Visa's and we're not sure when we'll depart for Nigeria. The way it's going our Freight will be there before us. Darren calls our Expat Coordinator every day to check on our Visa status and no news yet. As I said before, the Nigerians don't rush for anything.

On a happy note, we went to see our Greybabies this weekend since we had some extra time and we needed some love from them, we miss them so much. They are doing greyt!!! Blacky and Chopin have lost weight and gained muscles and look fantastic. They are happy and full of life and were very happy to see us and gave us lots of kisses. Reigni and Spur are also doing wonderful, and enjoyed having us there. I'm so glad we were able to see them one more time before we left, I was really missing them. It was really nice to see how happy they are and doing so well. I think with all the exercise they are getting and the weight Blacky and Chopin lost they will be with us for many many more years to come.

I'll post again when I know our departure date. Once there I'll be taking some picuters with our new cameral we got, Cannon Rebel and it's awesome, the pictures it takes are out of this world.

Air & Sea Freight Day

Well guys, we started packing up our household items yesterday with the moving people and they are loading the boxes etc as I'm typing this. We have been delayed departure by one week though (our Visa's haven't arrived yet) told you, Nigerians move at a very slow pace. At least our Freight will be on it's way so maybe we won't have to wait so long for it to arrive. The movers said they aren't as busy right now with overseas moving since school has started. That maybe a good thing also, not so many air and sea freight for our stuff to get delayed with.