Sabahar

My favorite shop in Addis is Sabahar.  WWW. Sabahar.com They are a member of The World Fair Trade Organization. It is owned by a Canadian family who have been here in Addis for 20 or so years! They make beautiful textiles from Ethiopian cotton and silk.  They have their own silk worms and visitors can watch the worms doing their thing! You can also enjoy watching the spinners and weavers at work. They make blankets, towels, table coverings, scarves, shawls, and the list goes on!  Brittany picked up a beautiful scarf from here.

This is where the magic begins....Silkworm larvae 

Next up, hungry worms 

Waiting to finish drying then on to the spinners

The weaving room

Some finished product drying

Hanging scarves in the showroom

We took The Jeungs here before we left for Kenya together.  Brenda loved this little shop and so I will use it as bait to get them to come back :)

Kyson is obviously still trying to figure the whole silk worm to scarf production :) 

Brittany's visit :)

We were SO excited to have Brittany here for a couple of weeks.  We spent time going to the gym, walking her through different parts of the city showing her the sites.  We did our first trip since we moved here to a different part of Ethiopia. I think her favorite thing to do was just relaxing in the sun!

We were sure glad to see our girl!!!!

Cameron skipped school and we went to the Sheraton for a day of swimming and sun :)

We spent a morning making homemade salsa, hummus and pita chips

We took a day trip to a little town called Debra Zeit.  It is surrounded by 5 crater lakes and is a popular tourist stop as there are several resorts there. We spend the day at one of the resorts and did some relaxing in the sun, some kayaking, and of course eating!

Delicious Brownie!

Sunday time together

Our last day together we spent visiting my favorite fruit stand enjoying fresh fruit smoothies. 

 Goodbyes are always so hard....