You Can't Go Home But You Can't Stay Here

We slept on the front lawn of our hostel in a tent last night.

We do not wish to discuss this.

It's becoming clear that Amsterdam is not opening today, and with so many delays, when flights are up and running they will probably put passengers on their regularly scheduled flights, leaving those whose flights were cancelled to fight it out Gladiator-style in the nearest stadium in order to keep the populace entertained until the World Cup. "Two will enter one will leave! Two will enter one will leave!"

We have come to the deeply disturbing conclusion that we may not go anywhere for another week, and since neither of us maybe necessarily got a great night's sleep, we've put on our "We want answers" face, honed over many years of being paid to acquire answers for others, now being put to, we hope, optimal use for ourselves. We discovered that KLM operates out of the EU, and there are a series of laws that govern their relations with their passengers whether said passengers are stranded in England, Uganda, or on the moon. We will be discussing this with the KLM attendants when they arrives at, we hope 5pm, as they have not seen fit to yet open the office (only many hundreds of desperate stranded people here, no rush!).

We're considering trying to talk our way into an extra week in Kigali, as it will be more enjoyable and less stressful than continually stalking KLM attendants. We have a bed tonight, the beer is plentiful, and our families (bless you a thousand times over) have made sure we have enough money to keep buying both of those things until someone lets us go home.

On the various plus sides: many of our fellow travellers and refugees are awesome, and one bought and cut up a pineapple for us (with a swiss army knife) on the steps of our hostel yesterday. We saw monkeys running around the airport today! All the music played here is the soundtrack to our high school years. CNN is really entertaining right now, and keeps running such encouraging headers as "Volcanic ash cloud getting worse", "Passengers expect to be stranded for up to an additional week" and "Travellers running out of money."