Kigali

We arrived yesterday afternoon on time.  We caught a ride from the Airport with a friend we made during the flight.  He is an american vice president of a new cell phone/internet company here in Rwanda.  We were invited to go hang out with american diplomats but we had a miscommunication on the timing so liz and I just at dinner on our own downtown.

Things seem pretty inexpensive here so far, but it is quite expensive i'm told compared to most of Africa. 

cab ride downtown: $4
pint of local beer: $1 - 2$
dinner in nice restaurant for two with drinks/desert:  $20

We walked around some of the downtown markets yesterday.  Tons people, tons of panhandlers, crowds of kids who follow you until you give them money or go into a nice shop.  Pretty typical developing world stuff I suppose. 

The weather here is perfect.  Mosquitos aren't bad.  We're still waiting to meet up with our friend Heather whose flight was delayed coming from Uganda.

...update...as I'm writing this post in the internet cafe, the hotel staff guy just walked down the street to tell us that Heather has arrived!  Cool.  Off to do some shopping today in the markets and get a phone hopefully.