Stuck Like Someone Who Can't Drive Stick

You know what, friends? We had it a little easy here in Africa. The water was almost never hot, but it was RUNNING. The food wasn't any good unless Damian cooked it, but it was plentiful. And when the good Lord, so popular here and in Rwanda, bowed his head over our situation, he was like, "Look, you should really get the full experience, you know?" And so we just happened to schedule our flight home on the day that a volcano that had had the good grace to lay dormant for TWO HUNDRED YEARS went and erupted in Iceland, disrupting airspace across Europe in ways that we literally struggle to conceive of, screwing up our flight home in ways we go beyond struggling to understand.

The Manolos are currently stranded in Entebbe, Uganda - literally in the middle of Lake Victoria. Unfortunately, the views don't make up for the delayed flights and EPIC VOLCANIC ASH.

We were on the second flight to be delayed out of Entebbe, so we're crossing our fingers to be on the second flight out of here to Amsterdam. The second flight may come as early as Monday, or as late as Wednesday - your guesses are as good as the actual information we have received. We have - in typical Manolo fashion - befriended the local KLM agent, Godfrey, and are pumping him for information every chance we get.

Once we get to Amsterdam it's fair game as to when we'll actually get back to the contiguous. We're praying for the air space to open up and be smooth sailing once we leave, but we're also just praying to get out of Africa and in to Europe... at least in Europe they have to like, feed us and stuff. We understand that Amsterdam is a virtual IDP camp, but tonight, due to full hotels and hostels from stranded passengers, we are quite LITERALLY camping, in a tent, on our hostels front lawn.

We'll try to keep you posted with the random and limited internet access we have and hope you'll all pray for us. One of us is a Jew, and we have been informed that since the Jews killed Jesus her prayers come at a discount. We were informed this, by the way, since our arrival in Uganda. Know what we miss right about now? RWANDA.

xoxoxox
Soli and Stipps