Flying Home

Saturday Night:
First of all, thank you all for the prayers for us last night. By the time I got back to the room, Blen was asleep (about 6:30) and she slept, pretty much uninterrupted until about 7AM. God is good. It's amazing how much better a child is with 12 hours of sleep. She ran around the room giggling and babbling and playing much of the day, but she still doesn't quite know what to make of me (hold your comments please). Wendy continues to be her source of sole source of comfort, but she is starting to warm to me. We feel much progress has been made today. We went to Salstala today as a special side trip with Alemu. I think he felt sorry for us since everyone else left and we aren't really supposed to go out with Blen in Ethiopia. The government has decided recently that they don't like to see white families with Ethiopian adopted children in public so once we got Blen, we've been pretty locked up. Alemu says that it is just a government thing and there is no ill-will toward westerners by the general public. Anyway he took us to a town about 20 km from town and we had a great lunch of roast goat and some sort of yellow bean dish all with injera. The food is incredible-I will miss, but wendy was fantasizing about T-Bell the last several days.So we were gone for a couple hours, which means we were in the room waiting seemingly all day to checkout at 8 PM for our 2350 flight home. It's never fun sitting in a hotel room all day. We just want to be home and see our boy (and of course everyone else). Thanks again for all the prayers and say a few more as we are about to fly. Please pray for safety and sanity. We'll see you soon.John Wendy and Blen