The Flight

On Saturday, May 10th at 3:10 pm. we departed on our trip to Rwanda from Des Moines Airport, Des Moines, Iowa. We traveled on United Airlines making stops in Chicago and London before transferring to Ethiopian Airlines for our flights to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (which stopped in Rome for 1 ½ hour) and then to Rwanda. This was a long journey.

We had a 12 hour lay over in London, so while there we took a self guided tour of the city (walking and by way of the London Underground). Imagine that! Big Ben, the London Eye, and Buckingham Palace are among the sites that we saw while in London. We happened to be there during a huge memorial parade, and met a lot of the soldiers in a pub following the parade. It was a good time.