We're Back!

We have arrived back in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Jacob was an EXCELLENT traveler!! He slept tons and his didn't get sick at all (he had the flu the day before we left). It is so nice to be back in Ethiopia. It feels like a 2nd home. The sights and smells are just as we remember them. It was so nice to have Job, an AWAA guide, meet us at the airport tonight and take us back to the guest house. Jacob went right to him and was smiling and loved Job just like he did 7 months ago. It was sweet to see them together again! It is now 1am ET time and I am going to try to look through our suitcases to see where things are and then try to get a few hours of sleep before the roosters, dogs, and people are up and going at sunrise! Tomorrow we will get to see the boys again! Job told us that Isaiah has been counting down the days until we came back! So sweet that he is as excited as we are!

Thank you for the safe travels prayers, they worked! It was an uneventful trip! Also we showed up with 10 suitcases that were all about 55 lbs. The handheld scale we bought was not correct, ugh. We spent about 30 mins trying to rearrange a few things and tried to buy a new suitcase (not easy to find at O'Hare) and then a lady said they are about the close the ticketing counter. So we just went over there to see what they would say about the bags. The lady was SOOOO nice. She didn't mind that the suitcases were over 50 lbs. We were also told that we should be able to bring 3 suitcases each (2 included, but a 3 for humanitarian/missionary). But the nice ticket lady has never heard of allowing 3 bags without a charge, she got her manager and he said the computer automatically charges so there was nothing they could do. Oh well at this point we were going to just pay the fees (4 extra bags=$800-yikes) But when she hit print, it didn't charge us. Praise God! Brad told her our God is bigger than computers! So we are thankful that we have all of our luggage and it didn't cost us anything extra!!!

Can't wait for tomorrow!!!