June 7th....After the flight to Bamako

We made it a safe and "easy" (compared to the previous flight) to Bamako at 3 am their time and it was HOT! The planes didn't have terminals so you got off the plane and then got packed onto a bus to drive the the airport. Customs was easy to get through...but then we had to wait for all our luggage. Everyone's luggage but 2 got there pretty quickly so we were a bit scared but they ended up showing up! Getting luggage and then going through the survailance is not anything like in America. There is no such thing as a line or "I got here first" everyone just gets their bags and goes to the front. I don't know how they managed to "look" in everyones bag through that x-ray machine when there are about 15 of them going through at once! We met the Gruddas outside and piled into their jeep with all of our bags up top and drove to the guest house. It was a nice place. We had a bed to sleep in...and a nice SHOWER! We hadn't had a shower since we left America. For breakfast we had Manogs and crousants with chocolate in the middle. Delicious! We drove around a bit and went to the grocery store where we split up in groups with shopping lists and had to shop...in French! It was quite the experience. At that point I had wished I brought a dictionary..I hadn't even thought of it! We then went home and got dinner. We ate street food called Nem. They looked like an egg roll but were some sort of meat mixture without the fried dough on the outside. You wrapped it in a piece of lettuce dipped it in sauce and ate it. And of course we had MANGOS! We then did a devotional and went to bed because we had to wake up early the next day to drive 10 hours to Torogo.