Ethiopia Trip- Embassy Day

On Dec 30th, we had a very busy day. We started off the morning with a bath for baby and getting ready. We had our driver, Alezar, pick us up early and take us to get some real food! We went to Metro Pizza to get some pizza! Yumm we were craving something other than Ethiopian food. At all the resturants they come and take the baby and hold him for us and play with him while we eat. It made us nervous because we are not used to that. But it worked out good to be able to eat without a baby in our arms!

After we ate we went to Celebrate Children's transition house and were able to see all of our friend's children and spend time with them. We gave the kids candy and played with them and got some pictures for our friends. It was so much fun to be able to see these children and know that they have great homes waiting for them. Obviously I can't post pictures here of others' children so you will just have to imagine the fun we had loving on them!

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After that we wanted to spend some time around the city sight seeing. One of the things we did was go to the Lion Zoo that is in Addis. Now if you have been to any zoo in the states you would probably not call this a zoo. But it was fun! There were about 15 lions, 1 bunny, 2 monkeys, 1 baboon, and 5 ducks. We would say without a doubt that we were the main attraction there. Haha. It was a unique experience to be the minority and feel what it is like. The stares did make me feel a little uneasy but that was the only time on the trip. These lions were SOOO close to us, even though there were 2 gates they were close together. Our driver even stuck his hand through the gates and touched the lion and tried to wake him up!!!!

Bennett slept through the whole thing. I guess he will have to wait until we go to the zoo here.

After that we decided to go back to the guest house for a little bit to rest.....then all the sudden our driver got a phone call that our embassy appointment (which was scheduled for the next day!) was switched to right NOW! All of our agency's families were in different places and scattered all over the place and the drivers had to all get together and rush us all there. We all made it. We were in such a rush that many families left diaper bags in the car thinking this was a short and quick thing. We didnt realize we had to wait while in there. Eventually daddy had to go out and get the diaper bag. Something about the embassy date being changed had to do with the holiday we think. All went well and everyone passed.

We went back and relaxed for a little bit and then we went to dinner at a traditional Ethiopian resturant that had traditional food and Ethiopian dancing. The food was....well Ethiopian. The dancing was AWESOME! This is a must see if you go to Ethiopia.

For everyone that knows me and how picky we are at eating....YES we did eat this! All week I might add.

Another family joined us for dinner.

Poor baby was exhausted.