We made it to Addis Ababa around 11:30 AM today after 21 hours of flight time and an overnight stay in Dubai. A couple of highlights so far:
1) We met Brian & Tracy (sorry if I misspelled your names) in the airport in Dubai this morning. They’re adopting siblings, and they live in Texas. He’s a pastor, and she is a photographer AND our kids are from the same region in Ethiopia – LOTS in common! We don’t know if we’ll run into them when we both attend court on Wednesday, but we hope to see them again. Either way, we’ll be sure to keep in touch! (I’ll post a link to their blog later. For some reason I can’t get it to link now).
2) Most families with our agency travel with a group. This just means that several AGCI families are here at the same time, and they get to walk through this phase of the process together. We, however, are here alone. While I was a little disappointed about that at first, we’ve also been looking forward to hanging out together – just the two of us. We’ve been so busy lately that spending all this time together gives us a chance to reconnect and talk about our plans for attachment and bonding, etc. once we get our little guy home. There were about 10 AGCI couples here last week, and we were very excited to be able to have lunch at the hotel with the last couple left before they flew out later in the day. They told us about their experiences and what to expect – super nice! Thank you, Michael & Leslie, for making sure to find us! We really appreciate it!
Tomorrow morning at 9:30 AM we will go to Hannah’s Hope and meet our little boy for the first time! We’ll try to update the blog as much as we can, so stay tuned! Here we are early this morning in our hotel room in Dubai:
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