Greetings from Uganda!! Wow what a week it has been. We left Tuesday morning to begin our journey. First the drive to Detroit, then the flights to Boston, Amsterdam, Kigali, and our final stop Entebbe, Uganda. We arrived at 10:30pm Wednesday night, got through immigration and customs with no problems and all our luggage arrived! We stayed in a nearby guest house that night. Thursday morning we met a friend for breakfast before we got on the road to Jinja.
Yes I meant to say Jinja and not Gulu. Our vehicle was not ready so we had to make a stop in Jinja before we could head to our house in Gulu. We stayed at our friends house in Jinja
Thursday night. They also have kids who are similar in age to Izaac and Ellie and they had a blast playing together. It also helped the kids to not get bored or take a nap as we are trying to get ourselves on this time zone (seven hours ahead of Michigan). The car was finally ready (it had been in the shop the last 4 months) Thursday afternoon so we would be able to head to Gulu Friday morning. We left around 11am and the first leg of the journey went well. About 2 and a half hours into our drive we stopped because of some noises under the hood and to check the luggage on top. Apparently the fuel injector pump was not bolted on properly and one of them was missing. Benj tightened the one bolt the best he could and we were on our way again about a half hour later.
A short while later we lost power in the vehicle and coasted to the side of the road so Benj could look under the hood again. Some wiring broke, so Benj got it back together and 10 minutes later we were going again. We broke down again a little while later. We added oil and tightened the fuel injector pump again and went to start the car and it wouldn’t start. We were 52 km from home so we called our team mates to see if they would come jump the car or at least pick us up if that didn’t work. About an hour later someone stopped to see if we needed help and we figured out our battery was bad. Almost the same time we got the car started our team mate Keith arrived. We were so happy but as we started to drive we couldn’t go more than 5 km/h. We were beyond frustrated at this point. Benj then remembered that he had a tow strap in the car. He attached the two vehicles and we began the drive again slowly but surely. We arrived home at 10pm. It was so good to finally be here! I am so thankful that Benj is able to do so much work on vehicle. I don’t think he will let anyone else work on it again (except his dad when he comes to visit). We have been adjusting slowly and are still dealing with jetlag. The kids seem the most back to normal. We both got back to work today. We are trying to get into our house as soon as possible. Well that about sums up our last week. Most of it was spent traveling but it is good to be home.
