After we said goodbye to our son at the care center we went to the Leprosy Hospital to spend some more money. We also bought yet more coffee to bring back.
Once back to the Jemimah house we needed to pack up, re-organize all our stuff, and prepare ourselves to leave the city. We had dinner, talked with friends that we had made with folks from other agencies, and slept like vagrants in the internet room because we were just so exhausted. We left for the airport at about 8:30p Ethiopia time (after still having, like, no sleep).
We had some problems with our luggage because all of the extra batteries we had brought for the video camera and camera looked like bullets... oops.
We got some of our money exchanged back and wandered around in some of the shops where everything was crazy overpriced. We met up with the Reece family and the Williams family fresh from some country sight-seeing after their court date the previous Friday. We were all tired and a wee bit dirty. We were able to board our flight from Addis with no issues and arrived with no issues. We slept about 2 hours through the night.
We had a 4 hour lay over in Frankfurt where we bought lots of internet access to post info for everyone.
The flight from Frankfurt to Houston was very difficult. There was crying. There was throwing of pretzels. Were were delayed waiting to get de-iced and to take off. Our seats couldn't lean back at all, there was no window to lean against. We were greasy and stinky because by that time it had been awhile since the shower at 6am before court.
When we arrived to Houston everything went somewhat smoothly but we had to run through all of it. The transit train broke down. We ran up to the gate to see our plane pull away because we were 5 min late. Luckily, they were very accomodating getting us on the 5:30 flight. Ted needed beer. We did that.
The 5:30p flight was just fine because we were able to wash up in the beautiful Houston airport of clean water and hand driers. Happily, all our luggage made it.
We picked up our car and went home and SLEPT. We got up, hopped back in the car to drive to the IA border to pick up our adorable boy. Haven't slept right since, but he has done well.
Looking forward to news about our court decree next week or the week after :-) Hopefully. The first embassy date in January was cancelled due to Ethiopian Christmas. That takes all the people whose papers would have been ready for that date and shoves them back. I think my papers will be ready by the Jan 25th date, but I probably won't be on it because of all of the people in front of us waiting.
That is okay. I love my son and I want to bring him home, but he is so healthy and still so young compared to the other children that I am content at this time to wait my turn. We'll see how I feel at the end of January when the Christmas buzz has worn off and the home is ready for his arrival and we are just waiting the permission to GO. We will see :-)
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