officially met our blogging buddies today. And the 4th family we knew
would be here also. They are all fantastic and all the babies/kids
are absolutely beautiful!!
Yesterday morning, as you know, we did pick up Addison. We decided to
just hang out at the hotel, rest up, bond with her. She has done so
awesome! By noon, easily, yesterday, it's like she's always been one
of our own! Trevor and Caleb, you will be excited too! Addison
likes to make dinosaur sounds just like you!!!
Today we visited the Gladney Foster Care homes, met some of the babies
there, and saw their traditional coffee ceremony. That was really
cool to watch and see exactly what they do here. Plus with Ethiopia
being the coffee capital of the world…that's how I see it anyway…it
was really cool! And I tasted it. I think I took a total of 3
sips-it did have sugar in it. It wasn't terrible, for me not liking
coffee, but I did not drink it all.
Then this afternoon we went for our Embassy appointment. It ended up
being pretty harmless and it all went thru fine. So hopefully
Addison's things will be done Friday and then we'll head to the German
Embassy Monday to get her transit visa, since we are going home thru
Frankfurt. Germany just started on March 1st, this thing with needing
a transit visa. We originally were avoiding it, but cuz of all the
flight confusion, we ended up switching flights. But as long as we
can go there Monday, tell them we are leaving the next day for home,
that we really need it, we're hoping they get it done for us and we'll
be smooth sailing. If they don't have it done before we leave that
evening, then things COULD get hairy in Frankfurt. But we've had
enough bad, so we're just hoping for all the good now!
And this afternoon Mark started to have something hit him. I don't
think he's sick, but I don't think something settled with him. At the
US Embassy appointment, he wondered if it was nerves, but it didn't
turn out that lucky. He's napping with Addison right now, so
hopefully he'll be feeling better after napping or a night's rest. I
think right now he's just got a headache (and of course won't take any
Tylenol for it)
Tomorrow is another free day, so we pondered going to Entonto
Mountain. But without our snugly (yep, in the lost luggage) I'm not
super crazy about that idea. We'll see how Mark is feeling. He said
he didn't mind carrying her otherwise. But then tomorrow night we
will be going to an Ethiopian Traditional dinner/dance thing. A
caregiver will be coming to watch Addison from the Gladney home…I'm
kinda hoping it's the lady who was her primary caregiver. Just to
give them one last time together before we leave for home.
I'm looking forward to Saturday. Joanna was telling us of a once a
month thing a church, I believe, does here. You go and they have ALL
kinds of souvenir things, for kids up to adults. Otherwise, we do
have shops here at the Hilton too if we don't find all we'd like
there. I have to say, there is a beautiful Ethiopian dress downstairs
I spotted in the window of a store for Addison……OH, I would LOVE to
get that for her! Just not sure how much it is yet.
Well, that's all I have for now. Enjoy the pics if I can get them to
post! The one of the 3 of us is the morning we had just gotten her.
One is with her yesterday loving her new musical toy. The last is of
her in her Traditional Ethiopian dress her primary caregiver gave her
today. We're planning to have her wear it for her baptism as well.
Isn't she adorable in it?!?
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