Sunday & Monday, Feb 8th & 9th - Traveling

....I'll be putting up 'day by day' posts from Suzanne & my trip to Tanzania (maybe with some non-trip blogs interspersed so stay awake :-) ... here's the next one ---

Travel days. Left London Sunday night and got into Tanzania (TZ) Monday afternoon. Enroute I discovered that there is an airline for Missionary Kids (MK). See picture.

Made the mistake of telling the customs official that I had 'gifts' so he opened my bag and wanted to know how much the gifts were worth. Fortunately the bags that I had only had cloths and items that others had purchased so I could honestly say that I didn't know the price. He was real interested in the Stanley Thermos and gave us a hard time about bringing in food (corn tortillas) informing us that we need to pre-approve that with the department of agriculture. Suzanne, who had not had her bags opened, came over for moral support and kept asking him where we should go to get this approval, etc. He eventually let us go with no charges or penalties. It was good to see the Russells as we got out of there!

Rested a bit, settled in and started to get acclimated to TZ life.

Londontown...Londontown

We woke up on this Saturday in London, happy to see the sun shining. Had a bit of breakfast and then off to the British Museum - one of the best in the world. Here's Joy on platform getting ready to get on the tube downtown.

On the tube, we saw this ad...very interesting.
After getting off, we headed to the museum - here's the interior courtyard.

There we saw things like the Rosetta Stone - which is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing.

Joy doing knuckles bump with a big hand!

After walking around for a couple of hours, we were "museum'd" out and went to eat some fish 'n chips, soup and then finished off with a sticky toffee pudding. Yummm!

Snow in London. Can it be?

Not for 18 years has there been snow like this in London. Last Monday was the worst (or best) depending if you like school or not :-).

Here is a picture of our London hosts, Jay & Judy Smith, back yard.

It started to snow some more as we sat around the table catching up.