VOMIT

after flying, sleeping, flying, waiting, flying, driving, and vomiting for about 36 hours -- we have arrived in Africa safe and sound with each piece of luggage.  Hannah arrived from Rwanda this morning and Ryan got here from south Africa last night. i (Nanci) got food poisoning probably in the dc airport -- and proceeded to projectile vomit for most of the 13 hour flight to ethiopia....the boys (being boys) kindly renamed it "@*%@" so we could discretely talk about my problem in public.  No worries -- I have kept down food for a day now and I feel just fine....I cannot over emphasize the horrendous experience of vomiting in a public toilet on an international flight every 30 minutes....I just kept telling myself "If I can live through this -- I can live through anything."  Then in Ethiopia - we ran into someone Ben and Maya know from Taylor!!  GO figure.  Plus we got to take our photos with the Kenyan women's volleyball team-- complete with their regional trophy they just won.  Out hotel here has been great -- pool and all (too bad we forgot our suits).  Today we went to town and bought some souvenirs.  It was decided that bartering just made Ben mad and frustrated but Dillon and I make a great team in bartering people down.  They get so confused they give up....
shop owner --"ten dollars, final bid"
Nanci -- "no that is way too high"
Dillon -- "yea - what about 15 dollars"
Nanci - (with a straight face) - --"7 is as high as we can go"
Dillon "yea no more than 10"
shop owner "okay two for 10 then"
We have been keeping ourselves awake until 10:00 pm playing cards and tonight we were so loud someone came out of their room to ask us to move :)  oops...
Tomorrow we leave for the mountain at 8:00 am and it appears as though the rainy season has hit a couple weeks too early.  PLEASE PRAY for good weather on the mountain.  We will be hiking through ran forest the next two days -- but we REALLY don't want it to be wet above the jungle--- that would mean snow!
Pardon the typos -- I am typing late at night with little sleep, no spell check on a computer that is called a "PC" -- some of you in the states still have such a machine -- but my nimble fingers aren't used to using such an archaic beast.....
Watch for a post next Tuesday after we summit.