Saturday night

This morning we went to Air France to check our luggage. I had too many of the leather boxes so the inspector made us pay a tax. It amounted to about $4US. Dr. E’bailay came by and again tried to lobby for checking my bag all the way to Zurich. He was told that they were not allowed to do that. So I will deal with this in Parish. We got our seat assignments and Vernie, Ray, and I are all sitting in window seats. I am told that the view of the sahara is very good in the daytime. The whole thing took us 1.5 hours.

We came back and had an early lunch and spent the rest of the day working at the orphan care center. We completed the 4 foot table tops, the 6 foot screen, and installed the last sink. We tried to ready the site for the next team that will be coming in on the same flight we depart on Sunday morning. There will be 13 in that group.

After coming back to the guest house and showering, Bob took us to the Grande Café and we enjoyed a very good American-style hamburger and ice cream. Being Saturday night, the place was packed. There were mostly families, many white, at first and as they left, it became more of a singles place. The people who came in were dressed so nice, it was amazing. When the locals go out, they like to really dress up with very colorful dresses. This was a very nice treat. Again we were stopped by the police on the way back but they just let us pass. I was told later that because they are not getting paid, they are really trying get money from people for their survival.

Everyone was very tired so it was early to bed in preparation for going to the airport early Sunday morning.