Day 5- April 7th

Wednesday morning was our appointment with the US Embassy....the very important step of getting our kid's visas. We were so blessed! Many times families have to wait hours to get to the little window where you do a short interview and are either granted (or denied) the visas. We were in and out by 10:00am...with SUCCESS!!! It is kind of wild to see all the families from different agencies waiting with their Ethiopian children (mostly babies) to get their visas. It is also strange how important this step is, yet is feels so casual when it happens...it's kind of like walking up to a bank teller. No cameras are allowed at the embassy, so unfortunately I have no pictures of this event.


After our successful embassy outing, we did a little more shopping and then enjoyed a lunch at a beautiful restaurant called "Lucy's" (next to the National Museum of Ethiopia where replicas of the famous bones of "Lucy" live) with some of the awesome AWAA employees (T, Robel, and David). This was our first experience watching the guys eat one of their favorite foods...RAW meat! Xavier ordered chicken nuggets...but it was not the McDonald's type he was used to...they were more like crispy, dry, popcorn chicken bits...I did not make him eat them.

We finished the day with getting T's hair braided...I had no idea what to do with her hair! Getting it braided would buy me time to get home so that I could meet with a friend from church to get a "hair lesson".

It was a nice day and we felt so WONDERFUL knowing that we were cleared to return home with ALL of our children!