Ethiopia

I am back to having some more Internet access.  We finished up in Ethiopia and now are in a hotel in Addis Abba.  It is interesting that in the 4 times we have stayed at this hotel we have been given the same room.

We arrived in Addis last Wednesday evening.  We had no trouble getting through the airport and to the hotel.  

I must admit we had a few chuckles getting here.  We flew up from Kilamanjaro on a big jet.  It was surprising as the airport in Kilamajaro  is not a large airport.  The good thing is we knew our luggage was on the plane as they had us point out our bags that were to be put on the plane. It was a long hike  up to board the plane as there was no sky way.  There were not too many on the flight to Nairobi. We stopped in Nairobi but had to stay on the plane.  Elaine had bought a carved Impala in the airport gift shop at Kilimanjaro.  Fortunately, we were able to secure an overhead bin on the plane in Kilimanjaro.  We did not want the Impala to fall out of the bin as others were boarding in Nairobi and were looking for overhead space. We kept stopping people from opening the bin.  One guy asked us if we had a chandelier in the bin.  He was originally from Seattle and went to Roosevelt High School.  He had overheard us talking about Seattle.  We were rather amused at how people were trying to get there luggage in some rather small  spaces.  One fellow was determined to get his bag into a bin that already had a large bag.  He succeeded.  

The trip to Ethiopia was uneventful except  we had a spectacular  view of the sun setting.  It was cool in Addis.  The shuttle from the hotel picked us up. Elaine and I with our 6 bags are the first in the shuttle.  They also had 5 men with their carry ons get on the shuttle. That took a bit of organizing getting everyone in  and rearranging luggage. One guy had his luggage on his lap. As luck would have it, ours was the first stop and we are at the back of the shuttle.   Several of them had to get out to let Elaine and I off at our hotel .  They definitely had much more room for their luggage once we got out.

In the morning we hit the shopping mall and the silver shop, bought some coffee and headed back to wait for our ride to Mojo.

I will stop for now as my computer battery is low and I do not have the right adapter to charge it.  By the way it is 2003 here.