Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jog!

66 hours after being dropped off at Entebbe International Airport (Uganda, Africa) Nathan, Kathy, Graham, Abigail, Joy, Esther, Elijah, and Isaac and baby-to-be pulled into their driveway in Tullahoma, TN USA!!!! This morning I got over to their house just after their first U.S. bath/shower in several weeks! Esther and Abigail had new Ugandan dresses, Joy had a Ugandan paper bead necklace, Graham had a Ugandan drum and a knife, Elijah had a carved Nile Crocodile, and Isaac had a ball made from dried banana leaves. They had lots of tales to tell (and still have many, I'm sure!). I saw lots of photos and there are still more of those. Sounds and looks like they had a wonderful adventure! On the way home they flew from Entebbe, Uganda to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Rome, Italy to Dulles International Airport (Washington DC) to Atlanta, GA and then drove from Atlanta to Tullahoma, TN. Because they were bumped from their original flight (overbooked by 75!) they had to fly stand-by so it took a while to arrange things to get all eight of them on the same flight. In Rome they stayed on the same plane. It was just a stopover to change pilots and flight attendants. Isaac (19 months)learned a new word on this trip: "airplane!" I wonder why he learned that one! Don't you know that they must be glad to be home! We have had fun having the children in and out of the house once again. Woody watched Graham mow a part of our yard and the two of them studied plans for making a Martin birdhouse. We have decided that we need to invite some Martins to come live near our homes to help deplete the mosquito population around here.