Whew....we made it!

That was the longest flight I have ever been on. We left Salt Lake about 10 am on Monday, crying our eyes out. Flew to Atalanta, Georgia and arrive with a tail wind about 3 hours later. We laid over for about 3 hours in the company of Elder & Sister Hatch from Panquich, heading to Johannesburg as PR persons. We encountered some elders and sister heading for Chili, When they saw we had cell phones they were freaking out. And yes, we told them that they may use our phones to call home. Long calls home;0)

Then it was on to Johannesburg, South Africa. That was about a 15 hour flight. My bottom felt like it was going to fall off it hurt so bad. At Salt Lake they told us our luggage was checked through to Cape Town so when we De-boarded we went directly to the British Airways to check in for our 2 hour flight to Cape Town. It was on the second floor up and about the length of the whole SLC airport. We had a 2 hour layover there. They said; "Where is your luggage?" The law says you must enter customs when arriving in any country. So we literally ran down two flights to try to get back to the luggage. No dice! We couldn't get back through. I said a prayer, ask a attendant for help. She said; "Follow me." We followed her out a side door into the parking lot back in another side door and right there in front of us was a guy with a cart and asked us if we were the Henderson's....on the cart was all four of our bags. We gathered another cart and stared running again.......does anyone realized Karl just turned 70, anyway, when we arrived on the 2nd floor a young man came to our rescue. He took us to our flight desk by way of a short cut, and lifted all the bags on the belt. I took out my rands (money) and he promptly took two bills, I don't even care how much it was I was so happy and felt so blessed to have had the help. We made it to our flight with plenty of time to spare.
Two hours later we arrived in Cape Town. We did stop long enough to take a picture with the custom officers when we arrived, they were so cute! Elder & Sister Oldham from Kaysville were there at 10 pm, Tuesday night African time with smiles on their faces to greet us. They took us to our apartment. We stayed up until about 2 am to unpack and slept in until 11 am the next morning.