Up, up and away ... again!

Hello there everyone,

As I am typing this we are 36000 feet above the ground – Yep that’s right we are in the air on our way to L.A. So far it has been an ok flight with the pilot putting the seat belt sign on a couple of times. I am so sick of watching bad movies and the only age appropriate movie for Katie has been ‘Cars’ and she has seen it a lot of times before. She has now decided to have a sleep but that isn't working. Donald has had a snooze and is now reading a book called ‘Liberating the African Soul’ by Felix Muchimba. Felix is the principal of GLO in Ndola.

Ohhhhh I sure hate the loos on the planes and I especially hate how loud it is when you flush it!!!!! Hahahaha It sounds as though it would suck you right out with it! Ohhh well only another 4 hours to go! We are above Winnipeg, Canada.

The Uk has been a very interesting place to visit. We have met lots of people that Donald has been able to talk to about Samfya and has had a positive response to the work at the school. Even on our last night he had a meeting but we did that over dinner and it was with Malcolm Houghton.

Malcolm Houghton is Stephen’s cousin, and Levy and Agnes’ home was once his. His parents were missionaries there in Samfya so he was very interested to find out how the Bible School was. We had dinner in a pub which had amazing food and even a few different types of curries that were all part of a smorgasbord dinner.

Last night we stayed at a Holiday Inn Express so that we were close to the airport. It has only been opened for 3 ½ weeks so it was really flash (well for us anyway). Thankfully it didn’t have a flash price!

I don’t think I would like to live in England. If you live in the city there are sooooo many people, but if you live in the country well.... there are still so many people and the old country roads are sooooo narrow, that in some places (a lot actually) there is only one lane! Some of the places looked like Coronation Street with all the houses all joined together. There are some individual houses but they cost the earth to rent or own and they all have to be a certain style.

Ohhhh dear we are going over some bumps again – I really don’t like them! Katie is becoming very restless. It is hard to do a long flight during the day when you are usually awake. It is a lot easier when you fly at night and you can sleep! It will be about 1.30pm when we land in LA.

Anyway back to England. There are so many castles and when we first got here we would all get really excited about seeing it but then at the end it was oh look there is another castle! We got and English Heritage Pass which enabled us to see a lot of the castles and Hadrian’s Wall. All of these were on our way to different places. More bumps again!!!

We went to Goodrich Castle which is just outside of Wales and we looked over the river (that separates England and Wales). When we got into the car Katie said “oh isn’t it a shame that we couldn’t just drive into Wales to say that we have been there. She obviously hadn’t seen the signs saying Wales! Oh dear now we have to put our seatbelts on ohhhhh I don’t like this!

Just as we went past the sign that said Welcome to Wales, Donald passed a truck so she still didn’t realise that we were in Wales! We soon told her and she smiled and told us we were mean. We stayed the night in a place called Chepstow. Well I must close the computer now as I don’t have much battery left – I will finish this blog update later.