Ethiopia Court Trip: Day 6 Sunday

Here it is our last day in Ethiopia and I haven't even shown you where we were staying.  Our room had two beds, a bathroom and a balcony.  

Here's one bed.

Here's the other.

Zack is standing at the door to the bathroom.

For some reason I didn't take a good picture of the balcony.  But here is a video I took early one morning.  If you listen closely you can hear the chanting in the background.  This went on constantly. Morning, noon, night...and even in the middle of the night.


Sunday morning we woke up early, as usual.  This time we had something to do.  We went with Abebe to a place where the locals worship.  We didn't go to a church but to a hillside on a ravine where a priest would bless people with holy water that came out of a spring.  We watched as people stood in line to go inside a little cement hut where the priest would then bless them with holy water.  Some people would fill up bottles to take the holy water to family who couldn't make it down to the spring.  Afterwards, we had Abebe take us to our church.  There are a couple of LDS branches in Addis.  We had directions to it, but I guess they weren't as explicit as they should have been and Abebe couldn't find the meeting house.  We drove around for a good 45 minutes trying to find the place.  We were pretty bummed when we couldn't find it.  That would have been a really neat experience.  When we got home we looked on lds.org and found the meetinghouse.  We were only a few blocks away from it.  Grrrrrr.  So frustrating.

After our failed church visit, we went and visited Yema for the last time.  She was as cute as ever.  Here's a video of Yema saying goodbye.



The rest of the day we just kind of waited to leave for the airport.  Our flight left at 11:00 at night and so we had a long wait.  It was kind of torture just waiting.  We took a nap.  We finished packing.  We called my parents and talked to the boys. Finally Abebe took us to the airport and we went through security, dropped off our luggage, and then ate a pizza in one of the restaurants.   We "stole" a coke bottle from the restaurant.  We bought a coke but they said we couldn't keep the bottle.  Whatevs.  We bought the coke- we bought the bottle it came in.  We took it.  We're such rebels.  We bought a few souvenirs and then just waited.  Finally we got on the plane.  We were headed home!