This is Lagos!

Uche and I traveled last Monday to Lagos, the most populated city in Nigeria. We were grateful that we were able to catch a flight from our town instead of having to travedl tot he capital first. Our flight first went to the city of Kano, where we stayed ont he plane while some people got off and others got on for the final leg to Lagos.
As we were descending into Kano we began to hear an older woman praying, not under her breath or quistly so only close by could hear, but she was alomst shouting as she prayed us down to the ground. As we were starting to take off for the next leg of our journey and we were at the point where we felt ourselves pushed back into our seat, we heard a yell/moan/shout- it was a combination of all those sounds- "ooooohhhhhhhh!!!!" from the old woman. She again began to yell her prayers for God to take us safely to Lagos in Jesus name! We had to laugh, along with others, though we felt sorry for this woman who was obviously terrified of flying. Her yell was something else, and if you want me to demonstrate it for you once we get home, just ask! I wonder how many people would like to yell out at that moment of a flight, but are too embarrased to even try!
Once we arrived in Lagos we were happy to see and stay with Uche's sister. A niece and nephew also live in the house, so it was nice for Uche to catch with these family members.
We had traveled to Lagos to get some papers from the American embassy, and we weren't looking forward to the journey across the traffic filled city. When we arrived at the embassy we were a bit early for our 1:00 appointment, so we decided to drive down to a fast food restaurant that was about a mile away. We were super hot and thirsty because Lagos is hot and humid and there was no have air conditioning in the car we had hired. It was nice to sit in the restaurant and have a coke for a few minutes before heading back out into the madness. We could see that traffice was building up outside, so we left at 12:20 to go back to the embassy. As we were sitting in traffic that wasn't moving at all, Uche and I started to get anxious that we wouldn't make our appoinment on time, and we definitely didn't want to mess with our hard fought embassy appointment. Finally, at 12:35 we decided we would just walk to the embassy and the car would follow and wait for us. We arrived at the embassy about ten minutes before 1:00 and were dircted to the line we were supposed to wait. At 1:20 we saw our hired car and drive go by, so it took an HOUR for him to go about a mile.
We got inside the embassy and waited for our number to be called and around 3:00 we were just waiting for the papers we needed to take with us, when we were informed that there would be a security drill. We would have to evacuate the building with the other embassy personnel. We got quite a kick out of milling around and chatting with the embassy people. Finally, we got the papers we needed, and we began the long journey back to Uche's sister's house.