Our day, thankfully, began around 8am this morning with a wonderful complimentary breakfast at the Toronto Hilton hotel :) we managed to fuel up enough to schlep our bags from the room onto the shuttle. We were pretty proud of ourselves for making it all the way to the Ethiopian Airlines check in counter with no help from any men! The airline staff was soooo helpful. It was faith that there were only a few others in line. They let us open bags, weigh them, and move stuff around as much as we needed to! We had a few books pulled out on stand by in case we needed any fire power to back our good intentions. Again, God must have been on our side because the "weigher" wasn't working properly so we only got charged for 2 heavy bags instead of the 3 that it should have been. It was partially in part to the attendant paying little to no attention. $120 later we were rid of bags and no longer had to worry about schlepping until we arrived in Arusha, where we would then have Efraem's help :).... (We can only hope).
On to the gate we went with a short finall Starbucks stop for a dirty chai! In line to board a gentleman in front of us noticed my Kansas license. He inquired where abouts we were from and was pleasantly surprised we both were from Kansas, in Toronto, heading to Tanzania via Ethiopia. To make things an even smaller world, come to find out his very outgoing daughter who was his traveling companion just finished her first grade year with Mallory Vielock, my freshman year dorm hall roommate!!!! How ironic! We had fun visiting with them and Arianna, of course had to come visit, color, and sing with us in the long flight.
We made it through the grueling 13 hours writing many a thank yous, reading some new books, and watching a few movies. It truly did go by pretty quick! Here we sit in the Ethiopian airport awaiting our next and final flight to Kilamonjaro. We are little like kids on Christmas full of excitement to finally reunite with Efraem. We are thankful to have Internet and to be enjoying fresh squeezed orange juice after our day/night/ afternoon (we're rather unsure at this point) of travel. Only a few more hours and we will be back on Tanzanian soil :)
Best wishes and god bless to everyone at home! We look forward to sharing pictures of our schlepping adventures soon :) until then, kwaheri!
On to the gate we went with a short finall Starbucks stop for a dirty chai! In line to board a gentleman in front of us noticed my Kansas license. He inquired where abouts we were from and was pleasantly surprised we both were from Kansas, in Toronto, heading to Tanzania via Ethiopia. To make things an even smaller world, come to find out his very outgoing daughter who was his traveling companion just finished her first grade year with Mallory Vielock, my freshman year dorm hall roommate!!!! How ironic! We had fun visiting with them and Arianna, of course had to come visit, color, and sing with us in the long flight.
We made it through the grueling 13 hours writing many a thank yous, reading some new books, and watching a few movies. It truly did go by pretty quick! Here we sit in the Ethiopian airport awaiting our next and final flight to Kilamonjaro. We are little like kids on Christmas full of excitement to finally reunite with Efraem. We are thankful to have Internet and to be enjoying fresh squeezed orange juice after our day/night/ afternoon (we're rather unsure at this point) of travel. Only a few more hours and we will be back on Tanzanian soil :)
Best wishes and god bless to everyone at home! We look forward to sharing pictures of our schlepping adventures soon :) until then, kwaheri!
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