Ethiopia: Day 5

It's been a much quieter day for us today. We decided to stay back at the guest house while some of the other families went to visit one of the orphanages that AW works with. I think it was a good choice for us. Mathios has come out of his shell even more today. He's pulling himself to stand on the furniture and even cruising a long it. This from the kid who just sat and looked at us 48 hours ago! He's laughing, playing and letting us know when he's not happy about something! We met up with our group for lunch at Metro Pizza. It was a really nice place, but directly across from a large plot of men herding their goats. Like we stepped off the bus and had to step around goats. Different!

This afternoon we hung out here while Mathios slept and then we went with a few other families to do a bit more shopping. The whole point of the trip was to go to a spice shop and I still don't know how that never happened. Transportation has been interesting this week! Everything was crazy today as people were going in a million different directions including back to the embassy. Praise the Lord that our two families that had delays at the embassy yesterday got everything worked out and will be leaving with us tomorrow.

Tonight we ate dinner in our room instead of having pizza again here at the guest house. Easy mac and tuna salad- yum! M ate spaghettios and he was a big fan! He's been eating so well. Thank you to everyone who prayed for that! The guys were supposed to have a guys night out tonight but our guide never showed up so they just sat around downstairs talking. I was planning on reading and relaxing while they were gone, but our suitemate, Sara, and I got talking and that was time much better spent. We are going to miss Shawn and Sara- they have been the best!

And now were headed to bed. I thought today would drag by, but it hasn't at all. I can't believe this is our last night here! Tomorrow morning we are going to visit a coffee factory and we'll be purchasing the coffee we promised some of you! We leave for the airport around 4:30 for our 7:30 flight to Dubai. A brief layover there and then a 2:30am flight back across the world! We land at JFK around 7:30am Saturday morning and will arrive back in Cincinnati around 4pm after a painful layover in NY. Please pray for the Lord to shower us with grace, perseverance and patience for our travels. We are so ready to be home and hope that the trip isn't as painful as we're expecting! So this will probably be it from Ethiopia. You'll hear from us again when we are safely home!