Saturday morning we went to a local church for a bazaar. There was all sorts of handmade items to buy to benefit local charity groups. This was our type of souvenir shopping. The bazaar was everything Churchill Street wasn't. Awesome things to buy that were handmade in Ethiopia. We spent most of the morning there and left with enough stuff that I was a little worried that we would be over the weight limit for our luggage on the flight home. :) Totally worth it if it was though.
We made plans with the director at Hilawe to come visit Yema in the afternoon. We decided to be adventurous and take public transportation. We walked from Oziopia down to the "bus stop" where all the little mini buses congregate and found a bus going to Lebu Mebrat, the square closest to the orphanage.
Then we took a long walk down the road to the orphanage.
When we got there we ended up having to wait outside in the courtyard for over an hour because no one there seemed to know we were coming and they didn't want to let us in. Since it was a Saturday the director wasn't in. We called Eleni from AAI who then called the director. She finally called Hilawe and told them it was okay for us to see our daughter. So nice of them. I'm glad they have security, but sheesh. We'd been there every day for a week. You'd think they knew who we were. Oh well. While we waited Zack got to take some really cool pictures of the all the flowers growing in the courtyard.
The wait was worth it to see Yema. She's such a sweetheart.
I don't know what we did the rest of the day. I think it involved hanging out at Oziopia and getting ready to go home the next day!
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She is so beautiful! I can't wait to meet her! The pictures of the flowers reminded me of your flower family pictures. Have you chosen a flower for Yema yet?
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