Flight To Ethiopia...

Okay so Sam is asleep and Mom and Sofie are out shopping so I will try to get a summary of our trip to Ethiopia in before Sam wakes up. This was an incredible journey that changed our lives in so many ways.

Flight:

Our travel to Ethiopia was long with some initial delays because of the weather in Michigan. But no worries we had a ten hour layover in DC before we caught our Ethiopian airlines flight. We met two other families from AAI in the DC airport. They had similar difficulties getting to Dc and actually drove to Chicago from GR the night before to prevent the possibility of a cancelled flight. The flight to ET was long but went by quick. Flying over the alps before we landed in Rome to refuel presented incredible views.

These are pictures of our airplane, our first glimpse of the coast of Africa, and a sample of the life that the waters of the Nile brig to Sudan. During the flight over Sudan there was absolutely no sign of life except when we crossed the winding banks of the Nile. unfortunately the sun set just as we were getting to the border of Ethiopia.

After we landed and got through immigration and were allowed to skip customs (why I still do not know), we were picked up by our agency's contact in Ethiopia. We dropped our bags of at the Sadula Lodge and headed of for a great pizza.