Zambia!

Most of you know, I'm a well seasoned world traveler with such far off destinations as Australia and Italy under my belt, but did you know that even those trips can't compare to the 3 day adventure it takes to get to Zambia, Africa! Sunday evening we flew out of Memphis, to Atlanta a fairly uneventful experience minus the one scare that the airline was only going to let us take 1 checked bag each! HA! Dr. Dean B. Weave set them straight :)
Being the HU Department that we are of course the first stop in the ATL airport was for food, in Terminal T, our flight was leaving out of Terminal E..the complete opposite ends of the airport. But On The Border was totally worth the "Home Alone" style sprint thru the airport after receiving a text from B.Weave saying "RUN to E31 RUN!!!"
We finally arrived in D.C. only to find that our hotels shuttles stopped running at 11 and it was 12:30, then our luggage came out on the belt only to find that our one extra bag with equipment in it had been mauled by the belt. B. Weave, being the champion traveler she is handled it all with ease. We all loaded into Taxi's 24 suitcases in tow for 5 hours of rest before heading off Monday morning to Zambia via, Rome, Addis Abebba, Zimbabwe, and finally Lusaka, Zambia. The flight from Zimbabwe to Lusaka was probably the worst due to the lack of belief in air conditioning and deodorant within the African nation.
Our arrival in Zambia was met with the usual headache, late luggage for over half of our group. We had a quick switchover at Addis Abebba, Ethiopia and not everyones stuff made it. They tell us that it should be here tomorrow or the next day for sure... **Fingers Crossed for the girls that don't have all or any of their luggage** For once mine all showed up and luckily some of the girls had stuck stuff in my extra suitecase so they atleast have deo and tooth brushes!
Our hotel is very nice and I'm pretty sure that after 3 days of non stop travel the shower I just took was one of the best I've ever had. We're 7 hours ahead of Arkansas and even though its only 8:30 pm Tuesday night I am exhaaausstteeddd.