Day 1: Blog Post by Donna

Hi CCUMC! We'll, we've made it on the first leg of our journey to Uganda. Daily we will update our journey. In the daily blog we will also give you a few questions regarding the team members and you'll have to read the blog the next day to discover the answers.

Pre-flight snack in SF

Question #1 - Whose bag weighed too much when checking in at SFO?

Our scheduled flight was to be taking off at 7:17pm, but the flight was delayed and take-off was actually 8:20pm. Our plane came from England, so they had to do more security checks before we could board.


London dinner (see the fish-n-chips?)

Question #2 - We saw six things being off-loaded from the plane that we had never seen on a plane before. What were these things? (This question is not about a team member, but something we observed.)

Question #3 - On the flight, who had the seat with the most leg room?

Question #4 - Who only slept for 15 minutes on the plane?

Question #5 - Who almost peed in their pants, because there was turbulence and the fasten-seat-belt light was on?

The captain did a great job landing - it was so smooth. We touched down at 6:30am Pacific Time, 2:30pm London time. We disembarked and then had to find "Waldo". We mistook several people to be Waldo trying to find him.

Question #6 - Which team member was "Waldo"?

Acapella quartet rehearsal at SFO




To transfer to another airline, we took a shuttle bus to Terminal 4 from Terminal 1. The bus looked like it didn't have a driver, because it was right-hand-drive. As we were riding along, Becky and Peter noticed all of the barbed wire around the airport. Becky also noticed all the signs on the bus that read, "Mind your head when leaving the bus." -

Question #7 - Arriving at Terminal 4, which team member was a hero by saving a baby in a stroller?

The big 777
After going through security and getting our boarding passes, it was time to eat, so after much walking and checking out the two restaurants, we decided on the Bridge restaurant.

Question #8 (the last one) - In our group, name the persons who ate fish & chips, who ate spinach salad, and who ate hamburger?

Resting at Heathrow