Last day in Tanzania! Hung out at a local restaurant for most of the day organizing pictures, as we were too tired to do much else.
On the way to the airport, we blew out a tire, which made us late. When we got there, we found that Daria's first connecting flight (from Kilimanjaro to Nairobi) had somehow gotten changed from August to July, despite us scheduling them together and my flight being fine. After a long time making frantic phone calls over spotty airport wifi (surprised they even had wifi with such a small airport) with google voice (phone calls were $6 a minute there on t-mobile), she got it sorted out at 6:45 PM, with the deadline to start boarding also at 6:45. We were so late that my bag apparently got pulled from the plane. It got lost somewhere in the airport, and I didn't see it again until 5 days after I got back, but at least it survived!
Of course, in Amsterdam, we got held up for 30 minutes when Daria's iPod wouldn't immediately turn on. Delta spilled Coke all over her on the way out, which fried out half the screen on the iPod, and then tried to not let her keep it on the way back because it wouldn't turn on and we didn't have a charger to get the screen to at least light up. Fortunately, they finally found a charger, plugged it in, and part of the screen came on, so we were allowed to board without throwing it away.
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