We arrived safe

It was about a 13 hour flight but aside from a very talkative guy who seemed to have no concept of volume control, the flight was fine. Tami slept for most of the flight, I think only waking up for breakfast and I stayed away for as long as I could before passing out. I was able to have fish oatmeal for breakfast and we have just met our contact at the airport. Pray for us and I'll do my best to keep updating the blog as we go along.

Doss Bradford

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