Johannesburg

After a lovely breakfast of African breads avocado tomatoes peppers onion and garlic in olive oil with pineapple for desert we purchased some postcards to mail to everyone only to find we had to have rand for the stamps no US$ bummed we took the shuttle to Johannesburg ahead of the rush only to find a new challenge awaiting us. The lady at the desk demanded the receipt for proof of payment of the luggage to go on to Maputo. This receipt had been taken at D.C. by South African airlines and put into the system but not returned to us. We told them our story and showed them our tags for each bag and then it got worse. They claimed we did not have any record of payment to Portland for these bags 12 in number which had made it all the way from the US to JB. Our story remained unchanged more and more prayers were being said. Finally after detaining us to the point of missing our plane they begrudging gave us our boarding passes and we RAN between customs and to the gate to make the last flight to our final destination Maputo. Up to this point the weather had been pleasantly cool. Now we felt the heat! Got through the yellow fever check. Then by the skin of teeth through customs and got the tourist visa $25 each. They wouldn't accept our 100 it was too old nothing before 2003. We found acceptable payment, whew! Now the luggage, only six bags! 6 of the original12 and the 2 last minute carry ons not there!! We worked on this for at least another hour. We were finally assured that the remaining items would arrive at Maputo the next day at 11:45. Guess I (Tanya) can make it one more day without my clothes. Trouble was only 1 mosquito net! Brundee had a miserable night and yes they feasted.