Tickets!!

We received our eTickets yesterday. We will leave Knoxville on Tuesday afternoon, August 5th and head for Dulles Airport in Washington. Then we will board South African Airways for Johannesburg...a 17 1/2 hour flight. I have never been a good sleeper on airplanes - even our past two international adventures to Tokyo and Europe were long flights with very little, if any, sleep...I am hoping I can break that record this time and get more than a few ZZZZ's :-) God will take care of it I know! We will get an evening and full night in Johannesburg (in a fabulous hotel, I am told) to rest up before we fly to Lilongwe, Malawi, arriving there on Thursday. That gives us a little over a week on the ground. It's getting close and it's getting exciting!!!