T.I.A.: Time To Catch Up...

[first stop in Spain? MCDONALD'S! Tammy & I had an entire photo shoot at 5:00am. It was fantastical.]

It has been much too long since I have sat down and written a decent blog post... so I will begin with our trip to Dakar. As my family so conveniently realized after they landed in Senegal, Air Senegal was bankrupt and there were no flights into Banjul. The crew decided to leave at 5:30am to make sure we made it on the first ferry and into Dakar. We flew out of Senegal at 10:20pm, so we were giving ourselves quite a bit of leeway.

Everything went perfectly, including the horse cart all 7 of us took across the border. We were piled on the wooden crate [literally, that's what it looked like] with an enormous mountain of luggage. I felt really bad for the horse.

I slept in the car into Senegal with my head nearly out the window. When we finally got to Dakar around 5:00pm, I used the bathroom and my entire face was gray thanks to the filth that is pollution/exhaust/dirt. I looked like Bert from Mary Poppins.

Anyway. We get on the plane, all of us are ecstatic, including Tammy who was vomiting yellow froth in the bathroom thanks to the Doxy [it's okay, she ate 2 airplane meals later on, including my turkey]. Never have I been so happy to be on a plane, even though our meal was cous and turkey... of course I devoured the cous and wouldn't touch the turkey. I had some leftover water in my cup so I decided to wash my white headband in it... not thinking anything strange of it until Jessi starts elbowing me and Tammy starts laughing hysterically. But it worked! It was clean!

We arrive in Spain and our first stop is McDonald's, of course. Hotcakes? I THINK SO! Absolutely delicious, even though they don't have syrup here. I was absolutely okay with it.