One Year Ago Today...

...we landed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at 11:00pm after over 36 hours of travel. We were exhausted, dehydrated, and in culture shock as we walked off of our plane. We also felt indescribable joy knowing that we had finally made it to our son's birth country! We soon discovered that our baggage was lost and that because our plane was over 4 hours late no one from our agency was there to meet us. After wandering around the airport for over an hour trying to figure out what to do, a nice man offered us his cellphone to call our agency's in-country representative, Ato Teklu (all of the phones in the airport were shut off by that time at night). Thirty minutes later we met Mesfin, WACAP's driver, for the first time. (Later we would learn that Mesfin had been the one who had driven Truman over 5 hours from the town he was born in, South Gondar, to WACAP's transition house in Addis Ababa when our sweet angel was only 2 months old. When we asked Mesfin what Truman had been like at that time, he said "Much smaller!" and described him as a happy baby). After about a 10 minute drive we arrived at our hotel. Within minutes we were out like a light, knowing that by that time tomorrow we would have met our son!