Arrival in Lagos

 We arrived in Lagos around 3 in the afternoon (aka the heat of the day:).

View from the plane as we arrived.

After someone somehow had known who we were approached us and took our passports off to be stamped for the appropriate amount of time we made our way to the baggage claim.  While Matt collected our bags and I guarded the our carry-ons one of the flight attendants from our flight approached me and informed me that she was  one of Jehovah's Witnesses too!  She thought we were from looking at us but we had a study Watchtower out to signal our ride and that clinched it.  She was the first class cabin attendant and I just wish I had known that before take-off as there were several empty seats up there!;)  It was so nice to get a hug from her and just have that reassurance that we really are everywhere!

We made our way through the rest of the airport and exited, looking for our brother.  They weren't there yet so we were helped to make a phone call to check things.  After a brother assured us he would look into it then we made our way to some shade and waited for him to call back.  You may wonder how that works when you are in a foreign country with no phone but it's totally simple. All you have to do is stick out like a sore thumb and you will be bombarded with helpful offers and advice from loads of people.  Pick the one that is most persistent in lending you his phone, go down your list of "just in case #'s" and talk to one.  Then the guy will wander off and promise to come back when the call comes back.  He will because you tip him.  Then you will have your information and he will have your money! 

We waited for some time (which never happens by the way) but we enjoyed just people watching and we got caught up on studying our Watchtower.  We placed 5 magazines while we waited with the helpful folks who walked by and just as we ran out of water and Watchtower study articles our ride arrived.  I was rather relieved!  We made our way to the van and waited awhile more as they had to help some departing people pay for their extra bags.  In the meantime however, they bought us a refreshing coke!

Coke never tasted so good! They use real sugar here too, none of that corn syrup business.

When we were on our way to the branch office they were so kind and offered to help us out with a meal.  Perfect timing too because I had just started to really be hungry.  I don't get too hungry while traveling and the heat doesn't encourage hunger either so it had been quite awhile since my last meal.  Many of you may wonder about what kind of food there is here.  I don't have too much experience with it yet, but I'm happy to report my first meal was way out of my ordinary diet.  Guess where we went?  No, not McDonalds. Way too ordinary.  KFC! Yup. Kentucky fried chicken in Nigeria.  You may think that's not too exotic but hey, we don't have one back home in Worland! :D  Normally it wouldn't be my first choice while traveling to exotic locales, but we had missed dinner at the branch by a long shot and it was good! Then it was time for some sleep before the next stage of our journey.

P.S. I'm sorry not having lots of pictures.  It's not that there isn't anything to take pictures of, but we have to be careful of where and when we take them here outside of  Bethel.  Until we know more about whats acceptable we just have to store some things in our memories:).  We will share as many as we can and I'm sure over 3 months we will have some great ones!