Friday March 7th at 4:00am we woke up grabbed our bags and caught a ride with mom & dad to the airport to catch our first flight. Shortly after 7:00am we were on our way! Saskatoon to Toronto. From Toronto we flew to Frankfurt, Germany. Then from Frankfurt, Germany to Sudan for a brief stop before heading to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Somewhere around 8:30pm (Addis time) on March 8th we finally arrived at the Weygoss Guest House (sort of a hotel) the place that we would spend the next week and a half. We checked things out settled in and laid our heads down. I don’t know whose idea it was to lay our heads down but it didn’t work! I got up shortly and went and stood out on the deck of our room overlooking Addis. I could see for miles. Mountains, traffic, buildings, construction (with scaffolding 15 stories high that wouldn’t pass the safety standards of any 10 year old boy building a tree house!). I heard sounds. People & traffic. Then at 5:00am I began to hear the chanting of the churches in the area. Around 6:00, the roosters calling. And finally, I saw the sun rising somewhere from 6:15-7:00. The day was finally here! The day that we would get to meet Mesele & Abinet for the very first time. We no longer would have to look at the picture on the fridge or the picture that had been in my back pocket since Oct 17th and wonder what kind of personalities these boys would have, what kind of reaction they would have when the meet us. Today we would get to see them face to face. Today we would get to hold them in our arms!
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