We arrived in Addis Ababa early on Saturday morning and dropped our things off at Yebsabi Guest House and then took the kids to a clinic to have their medical examinations needed in order to get a visa. After that, most families napped, but I had to scan some of our original documents that needed to be translated.
Here is the official business that happened the rest of the week:
Monday- filled out I-600 and sent with AWAA staff
Tuesday - filled out some other form - 230 or something like that and went to the embassy to turn it in and got appointments for wednesday.
Wednesday - 9:00 appointments at the embassy that went well - the AWAA staff was to pick up our travel packets that afternoon! We had finished everything we needed to! We received our packets and some families were even able to fly out wednesday night.
Thursday - tour of coffee factory. Ethiopia is where coffee was discovered - some guy named Kaldi.
Friday - packing and headed to the airport at 5:30 so we could request a bassinet. They told us all the bassinets were reserved. Boarded the flight around 10:00 pm. Saw people sitting in the bassinet row that didn't have kids and they switched seats with us so we could have a bassinet! The next 17 hours was VERY LONG - not much sleep for Sten and I, but we arrived in DC at 8:30 am on Saturday!
Saturday- Long lines at immigration, a starbucks coffee, more lines at security, then we boarded a 12:30 flight to Chicago. When we arrived in Chicago we found out our 4:00 flight to Nashville had be cancelled. Our customer service lady worked some magic and got us on another airline to nashville at 3:15. We were greeted in Nashville by a sweet little gal in a princess dress who captured her new brother's attention right away!
