We were ready to head out by 7 a.m. on Friday morning, although with the 7 hour time change from Michigan our bodies were still thinking it was mid-night.
Pastor Samson who picked us up at the airport returned to drive us around for the day.
We headed to the church office to pick up Rachel, the national secretary and headed over to the Immigration office.
While it was hard to find a place to park there was no standing line at the office.
We sat in a row although only Cory needed to go into the office. You advance one seat at a time as people are helped. Less than one hour later we were praising the Lord for Cory's work permit card being in hand, and heading back to drop Rachel off at the office.
The next task we attempted was to get our phones changed over to Airtel and get internet working. Did the paperwork but the system was down so off we went for some shopping...including picking up some finger food chicken pies, peanut butter and rolls at the grocery store.
We visited 'China Mall' which has household tools, furniture and items; the hardware store [no trees tempted Cory]; checked in at Qatar office about the bags, rechecked about the phones, checked a couple spots about replicating the truck keys...and then Fritz and I were dropped off at the guest house while the guys headed to the airport to check on our bags.
Fritz and I napped, watched some TV and thankfully welcomed them back in a couple hours with ALL 5 checked bags and some pizza. Repacked some things and went to bed.
Saturday morning we once again headed out leaving all our luggage in the rooms as it had rained all night and still looked threatening. Returning to the first place we'd started the phone process we were told the system remained down and the guy who helped us didn't work that day. On to the next mall and the Airtel office wasn't open yet. So we filled a cart and basket at a big grocery store before Cory returned and successfully set up our phones and internet.
Returning to the guesthouse a tarp was wrapped around the luggage and supplies in the back of the truck. We did a bit of cloth shopping, and Samson bought some items too before we left town.
We enjoyed a late lunch at the Hungery Lion chicken chain resturant on the way south. Another couple short stops for bathroom, bread, and eggs. We arrived to Jembo in enough time to unload [thankfully not raining] and take a quick walk around the garden and orchards.
Thankful to be here after a very long week!
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