Travel day

Well a challenging start to the trip.
BA started the trip with a 15hr delay. So instead of starting the trip on Thursday 19th at 7pm we are delayed until Friday 20th 11:30am. It's a day flight which means we arrive at 12:30am Saturday morning. (In the early hours) our connecting flight will be at 6am to Durban.

We meet the team at Heathrow with an early start, been picked up at 5am by BW Cars (thank you guys) arriving at Heathrow it is hectic and so many school groups. The team have been asked to where they're orange 🍊 hoodies so we can identify them with ease. But has we arrive into the departure hall there os a school trip with the same colour hoodies. (best plans and all that)

The team start to arrive from the Butterfly 🦋 project on Horsham. A Centre that helps and supports young adults with learning difficulties to live an independent life.
Most if not all the young people i had spent time with at some of their Fun'd raising events.
One young lady Sobion when I first met her at the curry night walked over to me with a pint of beer 🍺 in her hand and said "wanted a pint" no I replied I'm ok I don't drink. Best you start tonight then she said.....lol
The 5 support team I had met most of them but there had been a late change, has two of them had got sick just before coming out.
Millie a young lady that was taking a year of traveling before studying has a doctor was joining us to Durban before going to volunteer at the Butterfly Palliative Unit.
Plus Lindani who was coming home to surprise his mum.
We start our journey going through BA terminal 5 and we did receive the airport assistance and the team got special land yards with sun flowers on so the airport staff could support them when needed.
The flight was 85% full and a noise one has the team where so excited..!
They didn't sleep the whole way there....lol
We landed in Johannesburg at 11pm which meant we had a 5hr wait until the earliest flight we could get on to take us to Durban.. nothing was open not even a little coffee shop. So we set up camp on the floor of Johannesburg international airport. Without having any Communication that this flight had been canceled there had not been time to of got 14 people booked into a local hotel.
4an and we are on the move again. At 54 my body is so not designed to sleep on a tiled floor. 😕
We got on the plan and I thought I would just close my eyes. Bump..! We took of ir had we...?
Nope we landed ....🤣 that was the quickest flight ever I had fallen asleep before we taken of.
Durban airport grab some supplies and sort everyone phone out and then done to the rentals to pick up the mini bus but not before saying hallo to my best mate Mr King who met us.
The journey up to the lodge was a quite one has everyone slept apart from me the Driver...lol
Coming to the lodge is like coming home. We dropped all our cases of and took the team down to Sodwana beach 🏖️ just to chill 😎
What a first day...........Læs mere