26 Hours Between Goodbye and Hello

*Keegan and Anne, Asleep at Keyboard*

It’s 2:13 AM. Our bags are packed, all evenly weighing 50 pounds. Our lists are done (we hope), addresses are changed, flights are confirmed, and as we write this things keep getting added to the list. We’re hoping to be able to sleep a bit tonight before going to the airport at 8:00 tomorrow morning. If we don’t sleep (because of lists or nerves), we’ll have around 26 total hours of travel to sleep before arriving in Addis Ababa at 8:30 PM Friday, their time, which is about lunch time on Friday in Kansas/Colorado. Everything has gone very smoothly in Kansas, from selling our Focus at asking price to having wonderful quality time with all of our family members. Aside from not being able to fit Keegan’s 3 year old nephew Lukas into the bags, even packing has gone smoothly. We haven’t yet had time to think about what it’s going to be like in Ethiopia. Instead our thoughts are on all of you, our friends and family that we love and will miss so much. We’ll be thinking of all of you and greatly appreciate your thoughts, support, and relationships. Please remember us as we travel and try to make a difference in Ethiopia. We’ll post again as soon as we figure out how to and have access. If there is not enough power to get onto the computer, we’ll shoot off a flair gun for you all! We have lots of other details (some amazingly interesting, others not so much but all part of our story), so let us know if you want to be on our more-detailed e-mail list.