More of Day 3 (Meetcha Day)

So that you can see her smile....a little more for your viewing pleasure.....

 

 

 

 

So we had limited resources in our little room for the day.....

so we are well aware that she has "food" on her face.  :) 

Ethiopia: Day 3 of 9. August 2nd.

MEETCHA DAY!

 

 We arrived a bit late at 8 am or so.  We made it through customs & immigration.  All of our luggage was there (praise!) and headed outside to meet our driver.  It was rainy.  (Rainy season in full swing). 

 

By the time we make it to our guest house, the adrenaline is rushing and we think we are going to meet Miss Chloe any minute.  We meet another CHI family right off the bat (actually had met online and communicated and were able to bring some motion sickness medicine for their sweet 10 year old).  Then our driver told us we would be picked up by our agency at 3:30-4:00.  What?  We had to wait 6+ hours???  We were a bit frustrated, but didn't want to rock any boat and start off our trip with complaints.  So we settled into our room and laid down to take a nap.  About the time we fell asleep (maybe 30 minutes later), we get a call from the front desk that our driver was waiting on us!  Apparently, Addis has it's own time!  So 3:30 meant 9:30 and we were on our way, albeit very tired now after a tease of a nap.  What we had waited for.........................................................

 

  

 



Daddy's little girl!

Little Miss Serious

  


As you can see she cried for about 20 seconds.  Then we cuddled, she fell asleep on us, we slept a little ourselves, we fed her, we changed her, we played, we may have dozed off again (remember the 24 hour like flight)  all in all the day was perfect. 

 

 

 

 



Ethiopia: Day 2 of 9. August 1st.

Well this is kind of our "lost" day.  We flew from DC (Dulles International Airport) directly to Ethiopia on Ethiopian Airlines.  The flight itself was (only) 14 hours.  But add the 8 hours we lost to the time change and you have almost a full day.  We arrived in Ethiopia on the 2nd.  So this was a lot of movie watching, music listening, should have been reading time. 



Our gate was right below the Ethiopian flag!  How convenient!

          

Ready to board in 10 minutes.  Ethiopia or bust!

Our airline.

Just getting started!

 So by far our favorite movie was 42. We had not seen it yet and watched it for the first time.  Here we were headed to Africa.  I couldn't help but be grateful for how far we've come.  And I sincerely THANK courageous people like Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey who paved the way. And that was 15 some years before Martin Luther King's famous freedom speech. I am so grateful for MLK and his dream:

 

 

"I have a dream that one day....little black boys and black girls will be able

 to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

MLK 8.28.63

 

This sister and these brothers are ready to join hands, Miss Chloe.  We are coming!