Trying again

Well our plane's taking off late as they try to fix a bathroom door
but they say we'll still get in on time. My first attempt to blog via
text failed so now I'm trying to email this post. Hopefully this one
works! Oh and an update to the post below if that there were some
empty seats so our seat mate moved and we now have an open middle
seat! Hooray!
Well we had to hustle but we made it onto our plane that departs for
senegal in 15 minutes! Had to rearrange the stuff in one backpack to
get it in the overhead bin but we got it eventually. This flight is a
good introduction to the next two months. I think there are fewer than
10 caucasian people on this flight and three of us are in our row.
We're sitting with a very nice woman who works for unicef in haiti and
is on her way to a course in dakar. We're REALLY hoping we sleep a lot
on this flight because we arrive in dakar at 5am tomorrow. The good
news is that wine is free on intercontinental flights so that should
help.
Hopefully we'll be able to find an internet cafe sometime this week
so we can tell you about our first few days in Africa!
-mari & michelle