It’s about 11:30 here in Ethiopia – approximately 34 hours from the time we left our house – and we have just settled into our hotel room. The trip here was long and not all that much fun, but we made it here and I guess that’s what matters! We met up with 4 of the other families in our travel group along our way and they are all very nice folks. I think we’ll have a good time together this week. We haven’t seen any of Ethiopia really because by the time we landed and got through customs it was pretty late. And it is also really dark. Apparently they have a power shortage right now so a lot of the city was just black.
One nice surprise when we got here is that our agency moved us to a different hotel than the one that families usually stay in. The hotel we thought we would be staying in is adjacent to Holt’s care center which is nice, but doesn’t have electricity most of the time. And I guess it was too full to accomodate all of the families traveling this week. This hotel has electricity (at least for now) and free wi-fi in our room and from what we’ve seen so far seems nicer than the other one.
We’re having trouble with the international texting number for Twitter. Anyone used that before? Not sure what the problem is, but hopefully we’ll be able to actually post to our blog so Twitter won’t really be necessary.
We meet Zoe Liremet about 10:00 tomorrow morning. So excited and nervous! Hopefully we’ll have pictures to share soon! Gotta get some sleep now!
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Found this on google. Maybe it will help. Maybe not. I’m not a twitter user.
“Here are the phone numbers :
40404 – United States
21212 – Canada
+44 7624 801423 – United Kingdom and all other countries
OK, onto the set-up.
First, in your Twitter account, go to settings and under “devices”, enter your mobile phone number. VERY IMPORTANT – make sure that the device is set to “direct messages”, otherwise this won’t work!
Next make sure the person you want to send SMS messages to also has a Twitter account and that they also have their mobile number in the settings with direct messages enabled.
I also recommend that neither you or your SMS recipient have the “sleep” function in the Devices section enabled otherwise if you send SMS’s during those hours, they will not be received!
Next, make sure that you and your SMS recipient are following one another on Twitter and that device updates are on.”
So excited that you’re blogging from Ethiopia. I’m going to stalk your blog for the next ten days!
Excited for you guys! Take it all in and enjoy the next week. Makes all the memories we have come back. Take care and know you are in our prayers.
We have been thinking about you both! Glad to know that you are there. We will be praying that Zoe will know you both–that God will have prepared her and that it will be a wonderful day for you all!!! (Can’t say both now huh!) Take care and get rest while you can!
We will be praying for your exciting meeting tomorrow!!
What? No “after” pictures? I was hoping to have a photo of the two of you after 34 hours of traveling to compare to the photo from the Springfield airport. Since you are 8 hours ahead we’ll be sure to think of you at 2am tonight. Tell Zoe “Hi” for us. Always in our prayers.
Yeah, how exciting that you have wi-fi!!! Can’t wait to read about what you guys are experiencing.
This is so exciting!!! Praying for you all!
I have been been checking the blog and am SO pumped that you guys have wi-fi…. can’t wait to see pictures! I hope you guys are able to sleep tonight– can’t imagine all the emotions you must be experiencing. I am praying that the meeting will go well, that Zoe will feel immediately comfortable and safe in the arms of her Mom and Dad (One feeding usually falls around 2 am so I will remember you guys then as well). Love you guys!
Woohoo! I cannot WAIT to read your first family of three post. So exciting!!! I think it’s about 7 in the morning right now in Addis. I wonder how much sleep you’re getting?
Enjoy the free wifi!
So so happy you made it safely and can’t wait to hear about your first meeting with Zoe. And I am so excited to see pictures!!!
Glad you made it safely. Very cool about the free Wi-Fi. Can’t wait to hear about your meeting with Zoe.
Yay!!! So glad you made it safe and sound. Can’t wait to hear about your life-changing week, even though I’m sure it’s going to be tough to find time to write about it all! If so, that’s okay. We understand!