Merry Christmas! We woke up early again today and hit the pool/beach at the Resort for a few hours. It’s our last day in Djibouti and we are definitely sad to go.
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A few things about Djibouti:
1) We have all gained about 10 pounds. The food here is amazing and FREE! We are definitely not skipping any meals.
2) It has been great to play 3 shows at one base because we have gotten to know these guys more so than at other bases where we only play one night. We recognize people night after night and have had the chance to really hang out and talk to a lot of people while we’ve been here.
3) Mr. James Hawkins is by far one of the best MWR/AFE Contacts we have ever had. We have had the time of our lives in Djibouti and most of it can be directly attributed to him. He has done everything we’ve asked of him plus about a million other things. We’ve also got about a million quotes from him that we’ll try to post soon (unfortunately, many of them cannot be posted). Anyways, we need to give a HUGE thank you to James and we definitely hope our paths cross again soon.
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James dropped us off at the airport around 4pm on Christmas Day to catch a 6pm flight out of Djibouti. Just like our troubles getting into the country leaving was way too hard. After about an hour and 45 minutes of customs/baggage checks/etc…. we all reached the gate. We weren’t happy to leave the base and James but we were thrilled to be out of the Djibouti airport.
Our first flight landed at Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia where we had a short layover. Approximately 11pm we got on a 4-hour flight to Dubai. We arrived in Dubai around 3am, had to deal with some baggage issues that the Djibouti airport screwed up, and then tried to get a little sleep before our 5:45am flight to Qatar.
It is definitely safe to say that at this point in the tour we all hate airports, airplanes, and just about anything that has to do with flying. These feelings are only intensified by all of our flights being over night.
We did get some good news though; our seats to and from Qatar were going to be in First Class. This was exactly what we needed to prevent us from killing ourselves at this point (maybe being a little dramatic here but not much).
The flight from Dubai to Qatar was the easiest flight any of us have ever been on. Full reclining seats, personal TVs, gourmet breakfast, etc… this was the first flight none of us wanted to get off of. Unfortunately, we were only on the plane for about an hour and a half before we landed in Qatar. This was a great end to a hectic day where we visited 4 airports in 4 different countries.
This is a picture of a gallows right outside the base that is said to still be in use.
This is the sign you see when leaving the base.
Pictures of us eating.... we did this alot.
One last photo with James before we left.
This must be taking off or landing because otherwise we were laying down flat
Breakfast
This is definitely the way to fly!
1 comment:
1st class..its a GOOD thing..you guys deserved it too!!
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