Just got done visiting our son and a bunch of kids at the orphange - the kiddos were awesome. They just got done giving "Y" a bath when we arrived. The "special mom" brought him out and he ran up and gave us a big hug (our hearts complete melted). We sat for a while and then Kelly gave him his "family" book - an assortment of pictures of the Breidenbach's, his new home, and even some pictures we got of him. He looked through them and then would point to the pictures and say "mom," "dad," and "kitelyn" (melted hearts got soupy). We played with a football, sunglasses, Nick's watch, said the ABCs and numbers. Then we did pony rides for "Y" and a few other kids. What a joy! Spent some time outside with the rest of the "older" kids (would have packed 'em all up and brought them home if they let us....and I'm not exaggerating). After we played frisbee for a while Kelly brought out her IPOD and pretty soon she had 10 kiddos swarming around her....to top this off she pulled out a box of teddy grahams and really became Miss Popular. What fun. They made us (and I do mean made) leave after about 2 and 1/2 hours. Kelly (whose heart is soupy already) got soggy and away we went. After giving us hugs (sniff, sniff) all the older kids stood on the stairs and waved us good bye.
I should also say that Kate was a big hit. She was sitting on the floor video taping us and the little girls and boys would come up and just hug her and not let go. She was in 2nd heaven.
Toured Addis a bit this morning. Kate and Kelly had a bunch of suckers and pretty soon little kids starting coming out of the woodwork (should say mudwork). I'd say they gave out 50 lollypops. Walked through the market about a mile down the road. Dirty, dirty, dirty but the people were very nice. Kelly and Kate thought it was cool that the people would all come and shake the hand of the big, bald, fat guy...and boy do I look big here. In the market they had small shops less than 60 square feet built out of sticks and mud or sticks and sheeting. They sold all kinds of stuff but most of it looked used. The people would walk around with branches and some kind of fruit that looked like a grape (maybe a cumquat?). Also there was three shops selling meat - I think a thin beef cow but could have been a big goat. It was up to about 80 degrees outside and the meat had been sitting there for hours in the open. People would come up and they'd shave some off the carcass and away they'd go... you could smell the meat shops before you could see them. Anyway, that's about it for now.
Nick
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