Comfort Zone: Tuesday June 3 – Found and Lost
If you have been following Bill’s blog over at http://tzblog.schrull.us you know that we flew back to Dar es Salaam yesterday.
Dar es Salaam at sunset.
FOUND: I have to admit that I was not really looking forward to the flight: I have been dealing with a minor sinus “thing” ever since Friday, and sinuses and flying don’t go together particularly well. I try to bring “just in case” medications with us when we come here. This usually includes everything for dealing with a cold: vitamin C, zinc tablets, musinex and sudafed (or the generic equivalent.) This year, when I was putting together the “just in case” package, I couldn’t find any sudafed in the house. It was then after 9 pm, and thanks to sudafed being a major ingredient in cooking some kind of nasty illegal drug it is now kept behind the counter at pharmacies: you can buy it without a perscription but you need to show all kinds of ID. So I shrugged my shoulders and prayed that we wouldn’t need it.
Yesterday morning, as I was reorganizing my toiletries kit, a found a blister pack with eight sudafed tablets in it! I took two right away for the flight to Dar. The other six are ready to for our flights to Dubai and then to New York. I thank God that I didn’t find them until yesterday: I would probably have taken them and then they would not have been available for the trip home. Side note: my ears still really hurt when we landed in Dar yesterday, but I seem to have less congestion today. Don’t know if it’s just the timing of the “bug” or sleeping in filtered air that has made the difference.
LOST: I had been reading my kindle on the flight to Dar. Because we were sitting in the exit row, my purse, where I normally keep my kindle, was in the overhead bin. I stuck the kindle in my seat back for the landing, telling myself not to forget to take it out of the seat back. Note to self: Don’t EVER tell myself not to forget something; I’m almost guarenteed to forget it. And I did – forget it. I remembered when we were in cab, about a mile from the airport. The cab driver was kind evnough to turn around and wait while Bill went to Tanzania Air and asked them to check the plane (which was still at the airport) for my kindle. They couldn’t find it, but took Bill’s cell number. We will check with Tanzania Air when we head back to the airport in an hour or so. I hope that my next post will include a praise report; if not, it is not an major disaster, just a disapointment.
We’ve enjoyed a nice relaxing night at the Tanzanite Executive Suites. Enjoyed the first long hot shower in two weeks and took in the news cycle and some Discovery channel in English. We don’t MISS TV in Kasulu, and all of our friends there have it, but we don’t really watch it there.
Bill has spent the morning exploring this part of Dar a bit. Soon we will be on our next leg to home, our work and our silly cats, Allie Cat and Marlie. Allie will probably not forgive us for at least an hour. Marlie will probably help us unpack!