Travel Dates are Here

Some skilled guys and gals will be piloting us to Ethiopia real soon from a cockpit like this.  We have an appointment at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 6/21/2010.  This is huge.

Amber has been on the phone for 2 days with numerous travel agents, trying to find the best and cheapest itinerary possible.  Unfortunately, we're traveling in probably one of the biggest vacation months there is.  The rainy season is just getting started, and those who can are getting out of the country for a few months.  The quotes we have so far are pushing $3k per person.  We're also learning that additional baggage charges are prohibitively expensive, especially if you're originating a flight out of most of Europe for some reason.  I think we're probably looking at leaving on the 17th, returning on the 25th.  Please pray for a good flight itinerary on a good airline for an unbelievably cheap price to come together for us.

Donations for the orphanage and transition home are starting to collect, which is really great.  We fully intend to pack as light as possible for ourselves so we can bring as much as we possibly can to Ethiopia with us.  There's a donation-collection-party being organized by Amber's sister Brittany this week.  That's so cool.

We got to share a little at church this morning.  We were interviewed for about 10 minutes, while an Eleora slide show rolled on the screens.  I hope it was encouraging to somebody today.  Amber did a great job expressing all the important things about our adoption story and how God has really stretched us through it all.