We made it back to Ethiopia!!

It was so great getting home and unpacking everything in its final resting place! I think Brian was especially excited- he loved seeing his guards (I did, too!) We got home around 5:30 and just started unpacking! I had to crash around 8 but he stayed up all day! Got my bike put together and inflated the kayak!!!! It is sitting in one of our spare rooms, looking good.

The guards made us a celebration lunch- so cute of them! Doro Wot is the fancy meal in Ethiopia, so they made us that and a few other things. Guys usually don't cook much here but they did great! It was the perfect structure to the day- get up to have lunch, but no other obligations. We were in bed by about 7:45 and I was zonked so maybe this is a good transition to the "new schedule."

Brian starts tomorrow, and I will probably head in to work tomorrow afternoon or something. I think I am a little apprehensive just not having any idea what the job will be like. My American good friends in Addis are still in the states and will be
back in a few weeks, so I haven't had people to rush and call.

Anyways, we are both having such a good time settling in, and together. Took me an hour and a half to make our simple lunch of hummus, carrot sticks, and grilled cheese sandwiches because I wanted to get the hummus exactly right. (It didn't turn our exactly right,but oh well...) Brian has been drilling/hanging a pot holder hook, a robe hook, connecting the washer, and now working on a wine glass rack. He sat down to lunch and said, "It is SO great to have a wife to cook for me!" and I said, "It is so great to have a husband that has power tools!" He is using them right away.

COLD!!! It is chilly chilly here, quite a change. Driving home from the airport in the taxi, looking at dark Addis in the middle of the night, it was so great knowing I was going to a cozy home with a fireplace that my husband would make fires for me in, and warmth and love in it! We keep thinking, Wow!! I don't have to get up from sitting on the couch and drive home to dark, dank HQ!! I LIVE here with my husband!! It's great.