Naturally we congregated in the bar in departures! No late arrivals, everyone eager, excited and scared.
My camera got broken in customs, it still works but the lcd screen is blank apart from the top right hand corner. This means all pics will be a surprise (thankfully they came out pretty good) and I can't change the menu from auto settings! However I'm in a group of 43 so I'm sure we'll get a few good shots between us.
We landed in Amsterdam about 8pm and made our way to the Park Plaza hotel. Oddly we ended up in the bar, of course that was for food!!!
Myself and Anne were very sensible and turned in about 10:30. Some peoples faces at breakfast (Dan) suggested the 01:30am drinking session after starting at 4pm was not such a good idea!
On the actual 16th (departure day) I think we were all so excited that no-one had slept. I woke up at 5:45am and by 6:30 had done a million manic chores. Then the texts and facebook comments started. Everyone was wishing us luck whilst we were panicking about do we check through to Kilimanjaro and keep day sack or do we take everything off at Amsterdam??
In the end 50/50 mso no need to stress.
The flight to Kili was very good. It's quite the oddest thing to look up and see people you know from work on every row!
Arrival in Kili was 21:30 Kili time (18:30 in England) and we walked into a heat cloud.
The airport is small and their was a little anxiety whilst everyone waited for their luggage.
However not much time later and everyone had luggage and we were seated on 3 rickety buses for a 36k drive to Moivaro lodge.
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