Home from Ethiopia!!

Abel. Kinda sad and confused after we all met for the first time..


Dean and Abel playing with some matchbox cars just a few minutes later..


Us a few hours later outside the Zebra Grill..


Abel having fun with the camera..


Yurad who is deaf,and Issac who also is deaf and lived on the streets for a couple years, having fun with Abel.


All of the families we traveled with and their kids..


Abel doing his Uncle Pat imitation (inside joke that some will get :-)


Abel in his Ethiopian flag hat and scarf and me in my traditional Ethiopian dress..


Dad and Abel having fun..


The kids with Tigest, who did a traditional coffee ceremony for us at the Guest House.


Abel and Tes just before separating at the DC airport today. Good friends who both are from Tigray and speak the same language and loved each other.


Steele Abel and E at the New Orleans airport.


Steele and Abel tonight in the bath tub.


Tes, Abel, Yurad and Issac, orphans no more!!!!!!!