The Truman Show

Michelle has been convinced for some time that secretly her life is a current episode of the "Truman show". For those of you unfamiliar with this movie starring Jim Carrey, the Truman show follows the everyday life of a middle aged man name Truman. What Truman doesn't know is that his entire life is full of scripted characters, detailed sets, and preconstructed conflict and resolution. That being said, of course our flight was delayed 4 hours when we arrived to the airport yesterday, after 3 flights changes within 24 hours prior to today, completely blowing our 40 minute layover in Chicago out of the water. And of course our flight was delayed due to something as catastrophic as low cloud coverage, I mean come on, who else other than a Hollywood director could come up with that one. Needless to say, we owe a very patient United Airlines flight agent named Donna several alcoholic beverages of her choice. 2 hours later, we were leaving the airport on foot, with 12 bags of clothing and medical supplies in towe. Michelle at this point was convinced they simply needed more time to set up extra cameras and filming crews in Uganda. So we started the morning of May 18th thinking we would be well on our way to Uganda in a few hours, however we finished the day with Kristen at a St. Louis Cardinals game and Michelle and I buying beer and pizza at a St. Louis Schnucks with our passports.. At this point we were at a mere loss for words. Kristen called us after speaking with one of her mentors through our church and said Robin had one motto and one motto alone in her previous trip to Africa, "T.A.B,".. "That's Africa Baby!" Playing by the beat of their own drum, it'll happen when it happens. Plans have obviously changed and we are now going to be leaving (fingers crossed) tomorrow, May 20th, arriving in Uganda late Saturday night. Someone send a memo to Chicago and get their cloud coverage under control so it doesn't totally cramp our flight plans yet again. We will keep everyone updated in the coming days and hopefully our next entry will be from outside the St. Louis City limits :)