Ethiopia - Day 6

We "woke" up this morning and got ready for our flight back to Addis. I use the parenthesis because neither of us really slept at all. The lamb tibs didn't agree with Steve, who ended up getting what we like to refer as "the squirts". The walls in our hotel were extremely thin, so every 30 minutes (on the dot) he was running down to the lobby restroom so as not to wake up our entire floor. Thankfully all was back to normal by morning! ;) I washed my hair in the sink (who would have thought to ask what hours they turn on the hot water?!), then we were off to the airport.

We had made arrangements to go to the care center in the afternoon that day, so we thought we'd go to the national museum in the mean time. Now would be a good time to talk about one of the most frustrating, annoying and expensive aspects of our trip. We need to hire a driver to go absolutely anywhere...to dinner, to the store, to the coffee shop, to the museum...everywhere. There is absolutely nothing within walking distance of our hotel (which is really my only complaint about our hotel). Everything we do has to be planned in advance...the driver meets us at our hotel, takes us where we need to go, waits for us, then takes us back. The drivers are wonderful, there's 2 private ones we've been using as well as the hotel drivers and they all speak English and have taught us a ton about the city...it's just a pain to coordinate constantly. Anyway, our trip to the museum was a last minute decision so we opted just to use the hotel drivers. 30 minutes later we were still waiting for a driver and by then decided we no longer had time to go...grrr. Being a creationist, not getting to see Lucy's remains isn't a big deal...it's the feeling if being trapped in our hotel that bugged me.

Anyway, we visited our little cutie in the afternoon. I think it was the first time we drove there and I didn't feel the least bit car sick! Maybe I'm getting used to the driving here? (Picture New York City with no traffic lights, no stop signs, no side walks, just as many cars and people, and add in a bunch of sheep, dogs and bulls.)

We had a great dinner at Sangam...Ethiopia has good Indian!