4 Days and Counting!

Well, I finally got the blog up and running! It is just in time as we leave in 4 short days. It doesn't really even seem possible. Just thought I would give everyone an overview of our trip so that you know what we will be up to.

On Sunday we leave Chicago O'Hare headed for Laguardia in NYC. We have to take a cab from Laguardia to JFK to catch our plane to Dubai. That flight doesn't leave until 11:00 pm so we should have PLENTY of time to make the transfer. The plan is to sleep? on most of the flight to Dubai. When we arrive in Dubai we are planning to have dinner with Bechir Melki who is the Sales Manager for SPX in Dubai. He is going to give us a tour of the city... in the dark.

We leave Tuesday morning to head to Addis Ababa. Upon arrival in Addis an escort from our Guest House, The New Flower, will be picking us up at the airport. We will get settled in and then around 3:30 PM we will head to the Transition House which is about 45 minutes away. I am sure the longest 45 minutes of our life as we will finally get to hug and hold our two new sons! We will stay at the Transition House for a while and then get to take the boys back with us!

Our appointment at the U.S. embassy is on Thursday and we will ge the boys visas and paperwork on Friday. Saturday we will begin our long journey home arriving back to Chicago Sunday evening around 7:30 pm. We are actually looking forward to the plane ride home knowing that we will be able to spend all that time with the boys.

Please keep us in your prayers for a safe journey and also for an easy transition for the boys.

We are taking a computer with us to Ethiopia and hope to be able to post while there.

We love you all!

Amy and Brent