We Made It!

Today we arrived in Ethiopia around 800am after our 12 hour flight from DC. We flew on Ethiopian airlines new Boeing 777 which was very nice. Our flight was uneventful. . . . well except for the fact that they paged for "any medical professional that may be on board to report to the front of the plane" about 2 hours into the flight. Lucky me, I was the only one on board. This will make for interesting conversation in the future, but for now we have more important things to talk about!

After checking into our guest house and having lunch, we went to Joseph's orphanage to see him. It was SO wonderful to be re-united with him again. We spent about 3 hours one-on-one with him which was nice as I think this will help to ease him into things. He was very apprehensive at first, but eventually was warmed up and cracked several smiles. We also saw our first tears today which I think is due to the fact that he is a bit under the weather. The orphanage doctor started him on Augmentin several days okay, so hopefully it will kick in by the time we bring him home. He also got a haircut since we saw him last - it is certainly cute, but I think I am going to let it grow again. :) Tomorrow we will go back to spend more time with him before heading out to visit his birth family this weekend.

Please continue to pray over the next week for Joseph's health as well as for his transition to his forever family.