After completing our workshops in Arusha (Tanzania) last week, photos were taken from the entire group. You can see that I still "fly the Dutch colors" regularly.... :-)
On Friday Kevin and I went to the Kilimanjaro International airport from where our KLM flight would bring us back to Amsterdam. Unfortunately the starter engine for the right engine did not work at the scheduled departure time of around 10 PM. After several hours of trying to fix this the crew of KLM had to conclude a new part had to be flown in the next day from Amsterdam. So at 2 AM we were all taken off the plane and loaded in small buses (all 300 or so of us) to a local hotel where we stayed all of Saturday. This resort hotel is located at the feet of the famous Kilimanjaro mountain (see the photo above). On Saturday evening we were brought back to the airport where we waited another seven hours before the repair was done and we took off around 5 AM on Sunday morning.
We missed the connection to Toronto in Amsterdam, so KLM had to put us up for another night in a hotel. I was able to show Kevin a bit from downtown Amsterdam. On the photo above I show him where Mary and I had our (second) wedding party in Amsterdam in 1990 (after the formal wedding and party in St Thomas, Ontario).
The treat on Sunday evening was dinner in an Indonesian restaurant in Amsterdam. We decided to have Kevin experience a "Rijsttafel"......
It was delicious. On Monday morning we departed for Toronto. I was home at 3 PM on Monday, more than 60 hours after we left our hotel in Arusha on Friday. A record long trip back home. But end good, all good. It is always something that can happen when traveling internationally.
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