Now this is the story all about how

My life got flipped, turned upside down

And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there

I'll tell you how We came to be in Pakistan...

It was quite the adventure. Lots of waiting around. Qatar had problems figuring out whether Abigail had a ticket it or not. We spent 4 hours waiting for our tickets, which was fine as we had a 10 hour layover in Montreal. We tried to sleep on benches, as we hardly slept the night before. We got woken up by people sitting down next to us and asking us to watch their bags. Finally Got on the plane. 12 hours later we got to Doha. In Doha we had to wait a few more hours. Finally we boarded a plane to Karachi. Landing in Karachi was fine, we grabbed our bags headed out of the baggage area to find ourselves in the open air of Pakistan. It was a bit intimidating at first, but we started to figure out where to go. We had to wait at the airport until 6 am for safety reasons. Terry (my mentor here in Pakistan) advised us to wait until it was just about dawn, as there has been quite a bit of crime in Karachi of late. So we waited from 2am when our plane landed to 6 am outside. Good thing it was pretty warm still. We only got mobbed once by children and eventually their parents touching Abi and pointing at her. Almost felt like we were zoo animals :). 

Abi was great. Mcdonalds was across the street so I eventually ventured over there to help bypass the time. My fast food eventually came 30 min later. It took awhile for them to get my order right. Another customer turned to me and said, "This is Pakistan!" 

We made it through the night and got a cab to take us the 3hrs to Hydrabad. but our cab driver had no phone, and so when the car stopped working halfway to hydrabad we were stranded on the side of the road. That was okay though as the cab driver pushed us the half a km back to a gas station. That is where he borrowed a phone to ask someone to turn off the satellite tracker that prevented his car to go further. There was a bit of time I thought the worst of this situation. That this guy may be calling in a gang to mug us or that someone would see a couple of easy targets and take us out. 

Fortunately non of that happened, and he was able to get the car going again. We made it to Hydrabad, but the driver ha don idea how to get to Terry's house. After asking quite a few people we made it close enough for Terry to spot us and he came out and helped us out the rest of the way.
Now we are trying to rest up.

Until later...