Day 123 to Day 134 - Ethiopia and Amelie

Communicated the Love every day of my wonderful Ethiopian trip.

I am so excited to be home, and have so much to say about the trip to Ethiopia, and my process. It was an incredibly enriching, beautiful experience. I am finally beginning to come out of my fog to where I can process it. Last night, the exhaustion of the trip hit me like a ton of bricks falling out of the sky. I thought I was literally going to come un-glued. After 9 hours of sleep, I feel better, but still feel really wiped out. I don't know how long it is going to take. But I am really happy to be home with this incredible soul.

To say that we adopted her, is true on the surface. On the deeper level of reality, she and the Universe, adopted.

When we got there, we were extremely wiped out from the trip. The Washington DC to Rome flight took about 7.5 hours, then we waited on the ground for about an hour for them to fill up the tank, and clean the toilets. Then the flight from Rome to Addis Ababa took about 5.5 hours. Overall a pretty fast trip.

Every day, except for the last two days, we took outings in the van. We saw Amelie for the first time on Saturday, September 5th. She was carried out by the nannies, and had her two fingers in her mouth (she uses them as a pacifier). She was wheezing from a chest cold, but we held her and she looked at us, and we spent probably an hour with her. On Sunday and Monday we visited, and then on Tuesday we took her for good.

I will post more at a later time, when I have been able to recover.