Better Late Then Never

So I can't beleive that I have only been in Rwanda for 5 days. Time really does fly. Before I jump to what I have been doing for the past 5 days I have to first talk about the flight over here.

The fight: It was long. I had thought I was standing up and moving around enough, but really I wasn't. When we landed in Kigali and we got to walk on that tarmac I don't think my legs had ever felt so nice. Aside from the length of the flight there were only a few other notable events that happened.
1) when going through the security of dulles airport my toothpaste got taken away from me because it was 3.4 oz and not the allowed 3.0. Obviously I did not argue but man oh man I wanted to.
2)seating on the airplane. Now I know that many of you prolly don't think this could be an issue since everyone has a ticket, BUT it most def can be an issue. So when I got on the plane I walked back to my seat and someone was sitting there; I asked them about it but they said that they were in the correct seat, so I just was like oh I guess I misread the rows and I sat in the row behind. Now another girl from my group came and was like this is my row and I'm 29,so you can't be here if you are in 28. but we just sat together. Then about 15 minutes later a woman came with the other 29 seat ticket, so I let her sit down in her rightful seat. Then I went to find a flight attendent in order to help sort the seating issue out. Essentially 10 rows of people were all one back from where they were supposed to be. So the flight attendent started moving people to their correct spots when the lady next to my friend(row 29) then said oh you want to sit with your friend, ok, I will just move to the open seat. Therefore letting me sit in row 29 with my friend. I was then informed that this is very common and generally causes huge discussions amongst who is going to sit where, and all I can think is that if everyone just sat in there correct seat there would be no issues.
3) my duck tape. So we took the first leg of our leg from DC to Addis Ababa. So in Addis we had to deplane and although we did not go through a passport checkpoint, we did have to rego through security. Since my bag had been overweight in DC I had to take something out to make it under 50 lbs; that item was my roll of duck tape. Now since we all know that duct tape is amazing I did not want to throw it away,so I put it in my jacket pocket. Everything was fine in DC security but not in Addis. They wouldn't let me take it, and I will be honest I was a little hostile and I know that one shouldn't be, but come on they obviously just wanted my tape. And as many of you can guess it ended with me giving up the tape so I could get on my plane:(.

Other than these 3 things the flight was fine. Flying over part of Africa was amazing. The sunrise was stupendeous and flying over the Nile was just unreal. Landing in Kigali was great, and of course getting all my luggage was also pretty sweet:).