Day Two - Paris to Johannesburg

By the end of the day in Paris, my vision was blurring from lack of sleep and I was feeling dizzy. I found it near impossible to sleep on the plane across the Atlantic so it caught up with me on the green tour bus in Paris. I was so glad to see the airport! We had a little snafu getting our carry on luggage and making it through customs and security. Once we got everything sorted out we found a restaurant and had something to eat. We also had some time to freshen up, and do a little shopping in the terminal. Our flight ended up being delayed a while so we used the extra time for a small group bible study.

The flight to Jo-burg was about 10 1/2 hours. We were served dinner around 2am and I was able to get a little sleep - I think. Once we deplaned we stopped at the nearest restroom to brush our teeth and freshed up a little. Then we moved on to customs. There was a little bit of a line but we went through easily and then gathered our luggage. You should have seen the trolleys piled high with all of our many suitcases and duffle bags. The trolleys were made to travel down and up the escalators too, I thought that was really interesting.

We ended up spending several hours in the airport trying to find a rental car that could be driven into Mozambique. The van we had reserved was not allowed to leave South Africa. We finally settled on renting two smaller sedans and cramming all of our luggage into them. We fit everything in like a puzzle - including people. By this time I was still feeling extremely dizzy, I thought the fumes from the cars were adding to what I was already feeling.

Once the cars were loaded and our rentals were situated we went back into the airport for dinner. There was a big food court where we could choose from several different restaurants. Our pastor Jonathan told us we could not eat at Subway or Winky's. I voted for Nando's, a chicken place. Everything looked really good, unfortunately my stomach was roiling and I could only eat a few small bites before running off to the bathroom to be sick.

After several repeat trips to the restroom my stomach finally calmed down. Some of my group mates went to a nearby pharmacy and got me an over the counter medication that help settle my stomach. SO then we were off! I was glad to be moving again, it seemed that my dizzy spells were gone as long as we were moving. The medication made me sleepy and I was able to get some rest in the car. We drove for a few hours and stopped in a town called Nelspruit for the night. Nelspruit is about an hour or so from the border to Mozambique. We were able to have dinner at the hotel before turning in for the night. I skipped bible study that night and took a shower and went to bed.