A 30 hour tour!

Six time zones, five airports, four cavity searches, three crying babies, two hour taxi ride, and one blind lady. Just kidding about the cavity searches, but Jimmy did get searched twice for explosives on two different continents.

It all started at around 10:00pm in Accra, Ghana when we left for the airport. Of course the power was off when we left and our lanterns were not charged so we had to make sure everything was picked up by flashlight. We got to the airport and stood in line for three hours to get through customs and have our bags checked. The plane was supposed to leave at 2:00 AM and we left four and a half hours later missing all of our connecting flights.

Good news.....is that when we left at 5:30AM we got to sit in business class and have four seats to ourselves.

Bad news......there was a poor old blind Ghanian lady who didn't know where she was....I don't know how she got on the plane, but she didn't speak English at all.

Good news....when we got to JFK the immigration guy had a great sense of humor and asked if we brought home any dead chickens and said that he had to let us in the country because it was our constitutional right to enter the country in which we are citizens. Then he said welcome home! (That's my favorite part!)

Bad news....we missed both of our connecting flights by three hours.

Good news.....we got all of our bags!

Bad news...we had to take a taxi to New Jersey because we missed our flight.

Good news...the airline paid for the taxi and McDonald's and we got to ride through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Little Italy, China Town, and the Holland Tunnel.

Bad news...it took two hours.

Good news...we only had to pay for our overweight luggage once.

Bad news...we had to sit in the very back of the plane on the way to North Caroline and DFW.

Good news...we made it to DFW.

Bad news...I didn't have a sweater.

Good news...I went to Old Navy and got a sweater.

Better news....I went to Payless and it was BOGO!!!!

Best news....I LOVE AMERICA!