49 Hours Later

We're back! We arrived back at our Michigan home at midnight on Sunday. Our journey started 49 hours earlier when we woke up in Tanzania on Friday morning at 7am local time. We saw a few friends off on their way to various places in Tanzania, then packed up and waited for our taxi to take us to the airport. Our flight left on time at 5:20 pm (local time) from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, arriving to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, around midnight. We napped a bit until 8:30am Saturday, when we boarded our next plane, the new Emirates Airline's A-380. Between all the movies, TV, games, and food, the 14 hr. flight passed rather quickly, although we were getting tired at this point and it was hard to sleep on the plane. We arrived in New York early in the afternoon, local time, got through customs easily, then waited 5.5 hours for our next flight. Than another hour, and another hour...I suppose Delta felt that they had to delay our flight just to complete our Delta experience. But, despite being two hours delayed, two good friends picked us up at the airport and brought us home after we finally landed in Detroit. We were exhausted after 49 hrs. without being in a bed and 43 hrs. of actual travel. And now that's we're back, we can finally post pictures! So, I'm going to start at the beginning of the trip and do separate posts with pictures for particular events or days. Sorry we couldn't post these pictures earlier, but I hope they're worth the wait!