So we are on our way to Entebbe. Our flight leaves tomorrow at 9:45am and right now Connie is trying to book our seats online (not having much success though). It has been a blast cruising around Kampala on the back of pikipiki's (motorcycles). You pray a lot though, because pikipiki's do not abide by any kind of street laws. They will go up the down and against traffic if it gets you to your destination faster. It's kind of fun to higher one. You just stand on the street and look like you need a ride and suddenly there are four or five guys with pikis swarming and beckoning you to take their motorcycle. You have to haggle with them for a good price and eventually someone wins out. We even had a taxi driver give us a great deal one day. He was standing around when we were haggling with the piki's and said he would take us for 10,000 shillings. I told him the pikis were cheaper so he lowered to 8,000 and I said they were still cheaper. He asjed how much and I told him they could take us all for 7,000. He agreed! Come to find out his petrol (gas) tank read EMPTY, but Amanda gave him such a hard time about it he said that if he ran out of gas we didn't have to pay! Unfortunately he didn't run out because it was mostly down hill and we think he coasted most of the way. Oh well, it was fun.
Time's up and our taxi is waiting to take us to Entebbe.
See you all soon.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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