Friday, July 22 Our original itinerary was to leave Minneapolis at 12:30pm for Washington, D.C. and catch a connecting fight to Senegal and then to Johannesburg, South Africa. We would arrive at Johannesburg the next day, Saturday, and spend the night there and take another flight to Windhoek, Namibia, our final destination, the next morning, on Sunday. This is definitely not what happened. Our flight from Minneapolis was delayed (due to storms in Chicago, or something, I don't know) and we missed our connecting flight in D.C. Once we got to D.C., we spent about 3-4 hours trying to find another flight to Africa. The next available flight was the next day, Saturday the 23rd, at 10:45 pm. This, of course, affected the rest of our connecting flights. New plan: D.C. to Ghana, to Nigeria, to
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