"well thats a pretty little poppet you have there"

so sorry to everyone who's been trying to follow my blog lately, my days are all messed up and we havent had much time lately to update since the wi-fi in the airport in london was far from free and last night i could barely stay awake through dinner haha.

this is the update i wrote while on our 10-hour layover in London though:

our plane took off a little before 9pm last night for London, and we arrived in the UK roughly 9 hours later. It would have been around 7:30 houston-time when i checked after sitting down to breakfast/lunch in the heathrow airport in London. But it was after 1 in the afternoon local-time. Nana and i shared a basil, mozzerella and pesto baguette in the little italian cafe they had a short way from our terminal.

i love listening to all the british accents here tho - that and the austrailian accents are prolly my favorite. haha - the man who was checking our passports and boarding passes when we first arrived in london looked up at me and grinned when he'd finished, and pointed to my necklace sort of chuckling to himself - "thats a pretty little poppet you have there". gotta love it -- oohhh the comments i get about my pop tabs.

last night on the plane was definately an experience - note to leah: i finally know where they get the planes with the 3-column seating on all those commercials/movies; they're for the international flights like to london:)

the meal they served on the plane was surprisingly decent - maincourse, salad, roll, dessert, an extra chocolate and all. i was pleasantly surprised - especially considering my past experiences with plane-food.

take off was cool too - hadn't ever flown at night so that was new. the runway looked really neat all lit up and then the cities all full of lights from so high up - it was pretty awesome. ha or maybe im just easily impressed. it was actually around sunset when we took off, but because of the rain, it looked like it was night already. but once we got above the clouds, you could see the sun just sinking beyond the horizon - it was really pretty with a bright orange reflecting on the clouds nearest to it. God's a pretty talented artist;)

sleeping on the plane though i'd have to say was a bit of a different story. haha, i've never slept very well, if at all on planes, but i managed. if all else fails theres always the 6 hour drive from Entebbe (where we're flying in) to Mbale to try and catch up on some z's too.
well we'll prolly be going off to eat soon, and then boarding soon after. ill try and keep yall posted. prayers are still much appreciated- thank you all for your support!:)