We made it here! After a 12 hour flight we arrived early this morning with little problem other than one missing bag of donations that will be here tomorrow. I assumed that since Jeremy and I had been here before it would be an old adventure just showing the sights to my parents again, but not in Addis, every moment is a new adventure.
My favorite moment is walking out the airport and seeing the beauty of the country the mountains the warm air with the cool breeze.... the culture hits you almost immediately. As my parents found out! We are laughing about it this evening. Our driver came but because we were so behind with the luggage delay he had to send the van on back to the guest house so we were left with two very small yellow lemon taxi's! Keep in mind you we have a ton of luggage.So they are throwing it on top of the cars yelling in amharic and pushing my parents into a taxi and ops off they go!!!! Welcome TO ADDIS, Mom and Dad, so glad you came.
Today has been exhausting we are all jet lagged and droopy but it has been great showing them some of our favorite spots that were easy to get to. I was dissapointed that we couldn't stay at our other guest house but God has provision, everyone was kicked out today from it because of bed bugs! So God knew! Our place is great, and have already made ourselves at home.
We took a trip to Bole the area we stayed last Novemeber and on our way back Jeremy decided to be stubborn and not book a taxi for 45 brr which is 3.00, so we walked 20 minutes through Addis to our guest house! So we huffed and puffed up the hill to our hill and enjoyed the kids walking beside us either asking us for money or just wanting to walk with us for company. Our favorite moment today was when 8 boys ages 3-9 came up behind up on the street clapping they walked up stood in front of us and began singing. Our hearts broke! They crowded around Papa and Nana, they started handing out America coins and the kids went wild, you thought they had won the lottery! It's moments like these that you realize that Addis is a place that will always be a New Adventure!
Tomorrow is our big day! We go to get TAD! Still unsure about our Embassy date but was told it is possible it might be tomorrow. We will see! Well this post alone has taken me over an hour to type because it has taken that long to load! Face book is not working because of loading times. Communication here is really hard so we will do our best!
We love you all back home! We miss you Awan and Zadyn and love you tons. You would have loved all the kids today crowded around us on the streets! They wanted NANA too! LOL
So proud of my parents they are quite the Ethiopian Travelers! Miss you Nancy and Dave & Becky and all our family and friends!
Till tomorrow!
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