Our Trip

We had a wonderful experience in Ethiopia. We stayed in the capital city of Addis Ababa at the transition home where Malachi had been since early November.


We had a personal driver who took us sight-seeing and shopping each day. We were lucky that he had grown up in the city and knew the side streets and alleyways very well because we were re-routed often. The African Union was meeting in Addis the week we were there, and there were multiple, random street closings whenever dignitaries needed to pass through an area.

Because of the African Union convention, there were police everywhere. Since you are not allowed to photograph the police, we were not able to get as many pictures as we were hoping for. Below are a few common street scenes. The first one is of children playing soccer.

This was taken from our car while we were driving. Yes, we were typically this close to people.

There were blue and white mini-buses/taxis everywhere!

We went to the countryside one day and along the road were women carrying their wares to sell into the city. The road was quite steep and their loads very heavy.