Another Week Finished

Sometimes it is hard to believe that we have been here for almost 2 months! At other times it seems like we have been here forever...

Sorry I'm not sorry that soon you will be shoveling snow and we get to wear Tshirts, shorts and flip flops all year :)

This is the puppy that Cameron and Carolyn want us to adopt.  There are 5 of them so it's hard to pick a favorite!!

Get ready to say "AWWWWW"

          This is a young Ethiopian artist we met in a shop.  His name is Emanuel and he brought us to his tiny studio to show us some of his paintings. I find them beautiful.

He took us to a wood, leather and ceramic working shop where we bought some handmade furniture

This is also a work of art!! These smoothies are very common here.  We go to the little market where I get all my fruits and veggies and enjoy these.  The layers from top to bottom: Mango, banana, guava, papaya and avocado.  You squeeze the lime on top and then eat the smoothie with a spoon.  These cost only 70 cents Canadian.  We will not get scurvy here.

Can you guess the most common flavor of cereal in Addis Ababa? The dentists must make a mint here! I challenge you to make up and post a name for a  chocolate cereal that hasn't already been used below...

Cameron playing some football aka "soccer".  Football is a huge passion in Africa.  Everywhere you go there are people sitting in restaurants and shops watching games.  Children use whatever is at hand for a ball.  I have seen them use plastic water bottles, rag bundles and all shapes and sizes of deflated and half inflated balls.  There is so much razor wire surrounding houses and buildings that they are constantly getting holes in them. In the video you can hear one of the guys yelling "Baby!" "Baby!"

Last but not least.  Warren downloaded all the Astrix and Tintin comics. Jao had all the Lucky Luke's in French so they are all enjoying some down time reading comics