made it.

We're here! After hours and hours on planes, we finally arrived in Gabon a little after 6pm on Monday. Our flight at Dulles was delayed in leaving, which made our connection in Frankfurt a little tight, but we made it. Anna will be coming in tomorrow (her plane was delayed) so we'll meet her then.

First impressions of Africa - its hot, but not incredibly so. By the time that we got here, it was very dark, even though it wasn't super late. Libreville seems busy - there are people everywhere! We're both pretty exhausted, so I doubt it will be long before we're ready to crash.

There's a five hour time difference between the East Coast and Gabon.

In the spirit of honesty, I did have a little freak-out moment when we landed in Gabon. Even though I expected everything to be completely different from what I knew, there was a brief moment after we landed and before we reached the gate, that I thought, "what the heck are we doing?" It only lasted a moment, and I'm chalking it up to exhaustion.

Tomorrow we'll spend some time at Hope House (the orphanage).