Exhausted, excited, nervous, overwhelmed.
The sounds and sights that met us as we got off the plane were so different from what we were used to, yet so similar, too. The airport in Addis Ababa is quite modern which surprised me. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. After we were through customs and exchanged some money we were met by the representatives and most of the seven other families that we would share our life-changing week with.
We and our luggage were loaded into vans and whisked off to the guest house. Oh, how much time we would spend in those vans in the coming weeks! The main things that struck me in our drive through the dark streets were: there's a lot of construction going on, there's a lot of people out and about, apparently traffic laws are optional here, apparently staying on the road is optional too, I sure am glad I don't have to drive, and I sure hope we don't hit any of these people crossing the streets! What an adventure!
The guest house was great. Exactly what we needed after an exhausting journey!
Our room was the one with the balcony over the front door. Notice the beautiful weather. It was like this every single day we were there - sunny and 70's.
Here's our room from the inside. We even had our own bathroom.
And here is are amazing travel group! We couldn't have asked for a better group of companions to spend the week with.
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