Saturday, August 3, 2013
This morning we woke up and had breakfast with a new family that arrived for their second trip. Their little boy is from Gambella too and very sweet. There are just so many special children here at Hannah's Hope. The older kids all play together and help the younger ones too. It has been good to have another family here because they have been able to give us some pointers on what to do and where to go since this is their second trip. For breakfast, Alma makes us whatever we like from a menu. We had eggs and toast. Brian put berbere on his eggs and loved it! We also had coffee.
After breakfast we went shopping with Danny. Danny works at HH as one of the drivers and he is so nice. It took a long time to get to the store. We drove and drove past all kinds of crazy cars and trucks and taxis and people in the streets. The store was situated on a block with a lot of other stores. I believe that Danny is friends with the owners so he takes us there knowing that they will give us good prices. They did! At the store we bought lots of fun gifts and special things for Lucy R, Isabel, our home, and our family. We picked out little traditional dresses with scarves, a coffee set, crosses, scarves, some jewelry, a table cloth, some puzzles of Africa and Ethiopia, a miniature injera basket, and some other small items. The people at the store were so kind and eager to help.
This is a roundabout close to Hannah's Hope. There are TONS of roundabouts all over the city. I have no idea how anyone gets through them without crashing into other cars.
The picture above is Jubilee Palace or the National Palace. We didn't get to stop and take pictures so this is just the front gate. It belonged to Emperor Haile Selassie
This is a funny little bus that is like a taxi that carries people all over the city. They can cram a LOT of people into them. It's called a bajaj. Brian and I almost got in one one day but then we chickened out because we realized we didn't know how to tell them to get us back to HH!
By the time we finished shopping, we were hungry so Danny took us to eat an Italian restaurant. The weird thing was that we were the ONLY people eating there. Danny had to leave to pick up some paperwork and drop some things off. The workers at HH NEVER STOP! They are hard workers and always doing everything they can to work on behalf of the children. Anyway, I ordered a Hawaiian pizza (which was pretty good) and Brian had chicken and spaghetti. I think it was supposed to be Chicken Parmigiana or something like that. They also brought us yummy garlic bruschetta. Before we finished our meal Danny came back and ordered a pizza too. We were able to sit and talk to him about Ethiopia. We finished lunch and headed downstairs. We stopped in a little convenience store to get some Ethiopian candy to take home for Isabel and then we headed back to HH.
This is Brian at the Italian restaurant/art gallery. I didn't take a picture of anything else.
I don't know why!
When we got back to HH Brian started feeling really sick. I think the Ab-normal burger from the day before did NOT settle well. He took some Cipro and rested. While he did that I went over to play with Lucy. I got to feed her and even weigh and measure her. She weighed 12.10 pounds and was 23 1/2 -24" long. Her special mother, Sara, gave her a bath and put lots of baby oil on her hair and body. She was so happy and smiley all day.
This is me hanging out with Lucy R in her room!
This is the little crib that she sleeps in! So cute!!
This is just another picture of her room. It's so pretty!
Later, Brian felt better and was able to come over and hold her, play with her, and rock her to sleep. It was starting to get dark so he passed her over to one of the special mothers from the nightshift and we kissed her goodnight. We can't wait to be able to take her home with us! We love you sweet girl!
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