Farewell to Paris

I just have a 1/2 hour before we board the plane for Bamako so I just wanted to say hi again. I guess this flight is only 5 hours so that's a piece of cake. Apparently on Sunday when we go to the bush we are going furthur than the last place they visited which was a 14-hour drive. In that 14 hours they made 28 stops, either for police road blocks or because the vehicle broke down. They said the police have little huts along the road everywhere and barrels set up and they just stop you to check your papers all the time. The other 2 ladies have met up with us, Jean Anne from Codys and C.J., from New Hampshire. The plane to Bamako has 100 empty seats, so they are allowing us each to take a whole row so we can stretch out. The Air France guy said that numbers are down a lot lately for flights. I took a few pictures in the airport here for you girls of the Prada shop and a few others. You can buy a watch here for as little as $20,000 or a pair of shoes for $700. I guess I won't be doing much shopping here. We were all pretty tired this afternoon so we curled up on the floor for a short nap. We are supposed to get there tonight around 8:30, I believe - 4:30 at home. It is clearing up here now and the sun is trying to come out. So that's all. My time is up.