Wanna go to Africa?

We're going tomorrow. At least that's what I told Sam so that he'd stop asking.

Sam's preschool sponsors two children who live in Chad. Once a month they have a worship service and all of the kids bring in the change that they've "earned" to send to Africa. We've been talking a lot about it and apparently when I gave Sam his money this morning, he got the impression that HE would be going to Africa today.

When I picked him up from school, he was heartbroken. "Mommy, I didn't go to Africa today!" I did my best to explain that HE wasn't going to Africa, just the MONEY. He didn't get it and he sucked me in with all of his "Whys?"

I explained that it is very far away and we would have to fly, to which he replied, "Okay, let's fly." I told him we didn't have plane tickets, to which he replied, "That's easy. we just have to go to the airport and buy them." I told him that we needed special shots so we wouldn't get sick, to which he replied, "Well let's go get those shots now and then go to the airport." I told him he didn't have a Passport...to which he replied, "What's a passport?"...You get the idea, he wouldn't take no for an answer...so I told him we'd go tomorrow and that was the end of the conversation.

I'm counting on him forgetting....if he forgets, it's not really lying, right?