Flight is Booked

Our flight is booked. We will flying from Minneapolis to Dulles and then Dulles to Rome and Rome to Addis Ababa, ET. Get this we will be celebrating Easter in a plane and for a short time in Rome (on a plane). How wrong is it that we will be in Rome on Easter and won't be able to get out of the stinkin' plane. We are actually traveling with a pretty big group of fellow agency families. It will be fun meeting everyone I chat with on my Yahoo Group.

Mahelet got another care package that the Richardson family delivered for us. It had a Twins shirt in it. It is a warning that we are baseball fans (even Hannah knows the players). I hope we get a few pictures of her in the Twins shirt.

We got 11" of snow yesterday and the entire city was shutdown. This doesn't happen very often but it was a pretty brutal blizzard. We didn't even get to eat at McDonald's because it was closed. We always eat at McDonald's for lunch when it blizzards. We were so bummed when we got there and they were closed. Actually there was only one restaurant open in town (Hardees) so we ate there with everybody else looking for lunch out. When we got home Hannah and I whipped a batch of chocolate chip cookies and as soon as I but the first pan in the oven the power went out ugh. The power was out for about 3 hours (entire city) and we had to run our generator to keep the sump pumps running so our basement wouldn't flood. We get up this morning and the power goes out again. This time for nearly 5 hours...so frustrating.

So while the power was out I was trying to get things done that didn't need electricity. My dentist gave me 150 tooth brushes, toothpaste and sugarless gum to take as donations to the Transition Home and the orphanage. So Hannah and I spent some of the morning taking them all out of the packages so it would save space and some weight. We each are allowed to pieces of luggage weighing no more than 50lbs. Each extra piece is $150.

The other exciting news of the day was that three families passed court this morning and were finally able to share photos of their beautiful kiddos.
Click on the links to see for yourself Kulpfamily Rutlandfamily VanDrufffamily
Congrats to them all.

Blessings,
Bliss