Christmas Time!

December 23-25, 2011

On Friday, most of us slept in, did laundry or went to town while Rebecca was able to see her second cousin and other relatives all day (which is sweeeet). After lunch, Immaculee made us some beautiful apple crumble and we had a mini-team meeting.  Most of us have actually started to pack and our rooms exploded with clothes and random things for storage. At dinnertime, Henrique came to pick us all up for dinner at Iva’s house. The food and dessert was absolutely amazing, healthy and delicious. Afterwards, we played the “Guess Who” game Bible style and charades.

On Saturday, most of us slept in again and packed all day. Rebecca was able to go for Christmas Eve dinner with her family and stay the night. Also, Peter, Taryn, Immaculee and Richard went to be with their families as well. At 4pm, the rest of us went to Laura’s house for a Christmas Eve dinner. Before dinner, we watched ‘One Born Every Minute’ or something like that and watched women give birth for outreach educational purposes… The food was fantastic, there were literal fireworks in the house and a pudding was on fire. After the dinner and dessert, we played mega Pictionary. Blue team won sadly. After that, we played a weird game involving a tower of flour and a piece of chocolate on the top. Ashley ‘won’ twice. The rest of Saturday night was spent skyping most of our families.

On Sunday, Sarah, Kaitlin and Franzi woke up earlier to help John and Suzi Peachey make the brunch. There was a really good egg, sausage, bacon and onion casserole, homemade cinnamon buns, and even fruit salad. Afterwards, everyone finished packing and cleaned their flats and rooms. Kelly came and checked everything and we shoved the rest into storage. We left the base with Yan Nichols at 2:20pm and arrived at 3pm. We had to wait an hour to check in, and in that time Ashley and Rebecca got coffee, Taryn was able to call her mom, and Kaitlin, Sarah, Bianca, and Franzi went to the Multi-Faith prayer room and prayed for a while.After we checked in, we headed through security and split up for the two hour wait till our flight left.

So we had a very safe, decently comfortable flight… but we are so excited to be in Ethiopia and being able to be working with kids for three weeks. Keep us in your prayers! And keep checking in with the blog. Internet is a little scarce here so every once in a while we’ll be able to go to an internet café to post. Unfortunately, however, that means that blog posts will always be a little late on the upload. Be patient with us… they’re coming! :)

Smiles, Immaculee's Babies

Christmas Time at Laura's House