Showing posts with label Sky ball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sky ball. Show all posts

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Eli's Trip to Ethiopia





Andrea & Eli, with sky-ball, waiting outside at the doc's



Eli in Ethiopia at the YGF


Hey, Eli, what was the best part of Ethiopia?

"Seeing baby sister."

What did you like there?


The proudest brother


"Giving her a bottle, reading her a book, playing skyball and playing with the kids."

Do you miss anyone?

"Baby sister and Ibrihim......"


Eli's portrait of Ibrihim

Eli rocked the trip. Ethiopians honestly like children. They really do. They say hello, Salam to them, shake their hand, teach them language, grab their cheeks. They like kids. Even Eli was a bit taken aback, at first, by all the attention. A shy child might find it really disconcerting, but he got with the program learned to say thank you (amasayganalho) and he could say everyone's names almost right away.

The famous SKYBALL




But pretty much anywhere we went, Eli had fun. He liked the surrealism of the lawn gnomes and mushrooms at the Sheraton, and the playground, even if our stay was very short.


Who knew they would have Amanita muscaria in Ethiopia?