A Glimpse At Our Trip To Ethiopia

Day 1 - We started our day off getting up at 3am to catch our flight out of Chicago at 6am.  We had driven up to Chicago the night before so we wouldn't have to get up even earlier.  Our flight left Chicago on time and before we knew it, we were in Washington DC!  After a couple hours of waiting, we were finally on our plane to ET.  The fun thing was that there were 2 families from AGCI sitting right behind us and another a few more rows back.  After a long flight, we arrived in Addis Ababa around 8:45am and found there were 2 more AGCI families on our flight!  We were able to get through customs and get our luggage pretty easily and were on our way to the hotel.  After checking in, we got our schedules for the week and were disappointed to find out we wouldn't be going to HH.  But as we started to learn throughout the week, the schedules aren't always set in stone.  Wass showed up and told us he'd take us over to Hannah's Hope around 2PM.  JOY!!!  So much nervous energy!  We took our bags up to our rooms and got ready to go meet our daughter.  It's a short drive to Hannah's Hope and we were finally there...standing outside the gates.

It wasn't long before we got to walk up the marble steps to R's room.  We walked in and there she was!!!!

She greeted us with the biggest smile and then started to jabber and squeal.  Everything about her is beautiful...her smile, her eyes, her nose, her cheeks, her tiny little hands and feet, her curls....  O how I wish I could show more....

We spent the next couple hours with her and the time flew.  I couldn't believe when we heard it was time to leave.  Oh how I wish we could take her with us. But then it was off to rest for another full day.