And we made it!

**Editor's note: I wrote this post 2 nights ago but had trouble posting it (the internet is a little slower here), and I decided to preserve the original content. - Ron

May 19, 2008

Whew! After something like 22 hours of travel we arrived safely in Kigali, Rwanda, earlier today, with ALL of our bags (***huuuuuuge sigh of relief***). We'll be in Kigali the rest of this week while we're attending the second annual Amahoro Gathering. We're staying at the Hotel la Palisse which is a really cool place with a beautiful view of the rolling capital city. Rwanda is known as the land of a thousand hills, and after today, I believe it. We've got our own little bungalow/one-room-cottage complete with a domed roof (pretty sweet eh?).

We arrived at the hotel around 1 p.m., made a few new friends, got a bite to eat, and then took a much needed power nap. We managed to wake up for the first session of the Gathering where we heard from a few veterans of the first Gathering last year in Uganda and got to partake in some awesome African worship music. We're lucky enough to have Jean Paul Samputu leading our music, who's a pretty big star in Africa (he's won the African equivalent of our "Grammys" a few times). He's great!

It's getting pretty late over here (it's 6 hours ahead of the east coast) and we're pretty beat from the travel. Time for the first night under the wide African sky.