Flashback - Day 18

Day 18, June 12, Kampala

Brian felt much better the next day and I felt much worse, but we headed to morning Mass with the Brothers anyways (at the late late hour of 7am). I started to feel real not great at some point and went outside for some air, circa five minutes before Fr. Hayden called us forward for a blessing. And speeches. Unfortunately I missed Brian's, so I was just flying blind on what to say. It turned out okay though and we received a very nice blessing. After breakfast with the Brothers, we went back to Mama Flora's, made a hostel reservation for the night (we decided it would be in poor taste to party with my friend Stu till late at night then come back to the house).

I still felt fairly miserable the next day, so we didn't do a whole lot, but Hillary took us for a brief tour around the neighborhood and saw the cathedral and some nice views of the city.

Leaving Mama Flora's was pretty difficult for us and them...I really feel like we were kinda like family. Hillary looked like he was about to cry when he found out we were leaving - he'd heard my friend Stu wasn't getting back to KLA until that late night and so assumed we were staying another night. He insisted on coming in the taxi to the hostel with us, I think to postpone the inevitable. Which made it sadder.

The hostel we stayed at was nice and we watched the US-England game there. There were a bunch of Brits there too, so we talked a lot of smack and sang our national anthem really loudly. I must admit to be pretty happy with a tie and we headed out to meet Stu.

Partying with Stu, a good buddy of mine from college, is always an adventure, but especially so in this case. Stu had just gotten back from two months in Madagascar literally an hour before and we hadn't seen a white person or wealth of any kind in over a week. The two places we went out were really nice and filled with white people (to be fair, it was probably 50-50, but it felt like much more). We had a really great time and I forgot that I was sick, which was awesome.