ADVENTURES of a Texas Omoge Part 1

As my "about me" says, I moved out of Lagos, Nigeria in 2003 and had not been back since, UNTIL, this month. On March 8th 2012, I got on a Delta Airline plane to visit my home country, and BOY! was it an interesting trip. I have lots to talk about, and in an effort to not be overwhelming, I will break it all down into a number of posts, and help guide my non Nigerian readers with some pictures. Sound good? Good!

Post. 1 The Journey (To and Fro) I decided to fly Delta airlines to save about $100, and have one stop over in ATL. And this turned out to have MAYBE not been the best decision ever. A 40 minute delay in Houston caused me (and about 8 other people) to miss our connecting flight in ATL to Lagos, so I ended up stuck in Atlanta, Georgia for 24 HOURS! WHAT IN THE WORLD? I was so upset about it, and the whole situation, was not even handled well by customer service. I made my way to my hotel with one of the other people in the same situation as me, woke up and took the train to go sight seeing in Atlanta. So Atlanta was alright, Actually truly enjoyed seeing the city.

P.S. ATLANTA has a lot of Black people. That was really cool, and somewhat of a good prep for Nigeria! Lol. Finally made it into Nigeria on Saturday March 10th.

FAST FORWARD TO my return trip. At the airport, the people at the check in area first tell me that my "DIRECT FLIGHT" from Lagos to ATL is stopping in Accra, Ghana to change crew.
GHANA!

I thought, OH GEEZ, this is about to be a HOT MESS AGAIN! Then, the lady tells me to hurry up to the Gate because the plane would be leaving early. I was confused since it was only abt 7p.m. and my flight was scheduled to depart at 9:35 P.M. I still hung with the the parents and said my goodbyes (with minimum tears, of course!)

N.B. Hanging with my parents in Nigeria was SO MUCH FUN! They are too cute!
Finally headed to the gate about 7 45, got through security and what not, and by 8 p.m. I was sitting at my gate. Turns out our plane was not leaving early as she LIED to me, we left Lagos as scheduled and flew 30 minutes to Accra, Ghana, to "change flight crew" which ended up taking us about 2 hours. We finally left Ghana, and sometime after my Nap #2, I heard an announcement, first asking if there was a Doctor on Board. THEN another asking if a passenger had Vaseline, or Ky-Gel or something of that nature. I considered offering my lip gloss but soon fell back asleep.
Long story short, a pregnant passenger had fallen into labor, and a few hours later, we were landing the plane in Dakar, Senegal to get her medically cleared to continue to the U.S. One of the hostesses paraded the brand new baby boy around the aircraft! #Preciousmoments
This entire trip makes for a very funny story, and thankfully, miles compensation from Delta airlines which means I JUST might be taking off soon to go see Barcelona!!!!!!!!!