Our flight ended up being about 6 hours late leaving Dulles for Ethiopia. I'm already losing track of times because of the timezone changes (we're currently 6 hours different here in Ethiopia). Boy was that a long flight. Approximately 13 hours and 3 meals. Because of the direction we were going and the northern flight path we had a very short "night". Many were able to catch at least some sleep on the flight. I personally did ok in that department. We arrived in Ethiopia about 3:30 pm local time which meant we missed our original flight out by about 4.5 hours.
We got a shuttle ride to the hotel. All 15 of us in one small van plus a driver and another passenger. Here is a picture of us all in the van. By Emilianne's face you can see how the drive was. She made 2 comments on the drive. First, she doesn't want to ride near the front of the vans in future because she saw so much of the driving conditions which really stressed her our (though she didn't show it at all). Second, she said she won't complain about family member's driving habits ever again.
We all got checked into our rooms (wow - everyone got their own) compliments of the airlines. Got cleaned up, had dinner, our usual time of worship and recapping from the day and now off to get some sleep.
Please pray for Wilbroad's (our host in Zambia) son who had to have emergency surgery today. He is doing well, but he and his family could use your prayers. Our delay in arriving is actually a blessing in disguise because it give them some rest time before we get there.
To end the post here is a rare sighting of Joel with his exit buddy.
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