Today has been a more than interesting day. I took another dose of the malaria medication last night along with an Ambien (because I was worried that I would be so excited to leave today that I would not get any sleep). To make a long story short-we have flown from Laramie to here (Denver) and are about to leave to Washington and I don't remember most of the morning? {funny part is that I don't remember writing that either...the truth is...I don't remember anything but the last couple hours of the flight to Addis; somewhere along the way, I lost about 18 hours of my life} Lance has been amazing-I feel like I have been drugged. I vomited at least 5 times this morning and once at the Laramie airport before we even left. {I have attached pictures of us in the Laramie airport} I am not going to take that medication anymore-I cannot risk feeling this way any more-it is like I am a child-poor Lance has had to care for me and keep track of me and all of our stuff all morning! I am now going to nap-hopefully when I wake I will feel more like myself again.
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5 hours later...We have now boarded the plane to Addis...Ethiopian airlines. There are a great deal of native people along with a few missionaries from the US. We have a 15 hour flight ahead of us. Shouldn't be too bad as it is the evening and I can sleep most of the flight. However, when we arrive in Addis it will be night and time for bed again? I am still nervous about the trip home with a new baby...but it will be what it is...and I am getting more excited by the day to meet her. So here we are...Colton (listening to his I-pod), Dylan (half-way through a book that he just bought), Lance (rereading the Ethiopia guidebook), and I am here wondering what Africa has in store for us...some sort of adventure I quite sure of. Our goal is to learn as much as we can in the short two weeks that we have about Simret's heritage and culture. We also plan to return and do some medical work in Ethiopia; as we would like to give back to the country that have given us so much and would like for Simret to know her roots.
until later...J'Laine
4 comments:
When I'm there next weekend I'll get up with her in the middle of the night and you can have a night to rest. I get up with the beast child ayway!
I can't wait to read the rest, keep on posting!! Poor Jill...you looks so out of it:-(
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i really enjoyed reading your journal entries about your travels outside of addis. i hope to be able to do that when i go pick up my daughter. can you recommend your guide/travel agency that you used? i worry about breaking down like you almost did--are there any type of tours with more of a caravan of cars? any info on that would be great. what an adventure and what an amazing experience for your family to learn more about ethiopia and where your daughter is from.
thanks
laura
lauraligaya AT aol DOT com
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