We made it!

 Here is Roman with our many boxes right before we left.

Well mostly, we still have an 8 hour drive to our home in Benguela (city), but we are in Angola. We will set off for our house on Tuesday. We can't wait to see it! Right now we are getting to know Luanda, the capital city, and meeting all of our contacts. One contact is allowing us to stay in a spare house on the grounds of a certain company in which right outside our door is a mini zoo with caged alligators, monkeys, and a python.
Anyway, the holes in our Portuguese are apparent. Any false hope of our grasp on the language was kicked to the curb quickly.
And we have yet to receive our last bag from the airport. That will come in time, and if not we will learn to do without. The world is still turning and we are hanging on, the kids are adjusting, (they love how the ladies carry everything on their heads), but it will be nice to finally, after 2 months, unpack our belongings. Next time I write, I'll be living in our home in Benguela, Angola.