Ramblings…….

Yesterday, Saturday was a good day.  In the morning we walked to La Parisiene Cafe for croissants and coffee/tea.  The staff once again could not get enough of Sophie. Next we went to the mall across the street to get some smaller socks for Sophie.  Finally we walked to a supermarket to buy some provisions.  On the way back a man who did not appear to be all there either naturally or by drugs or both i don't know, started talking to me about Sophie, then he demanded 100 birr.  I told him to get lost, then it got scarier as he said give me 100 birr or I take your baby and I will kill her.  A number of people on the street tried to slow his progress down and keep him away but he followed for 2 blocks.  Finally a street cleaner ushered him down a side road away from us. People figured that he was not mentally stable and he was probably stoned on Khat.


 
We had a quiet afternoon hanging around our room. In the evening we met up with some friends for dinner, Shirley, Marion and Kyle.  Good times and great Indian food. On the way back, on the busiest road in Addis, Bole, we saw a teenager lying on the sidewalk having seizures.  Shirley stayed with him and Tammy and got our cab and tried to get medical help.  When we got back to kid had come to and Shirley said some other kids had given him some kind of drug and he had a bad reaction.  They sent him home in a cab.  So it was an eventful day.


 
Today we went to To.Mo.Ca to buy more coffee beans mmmmm.  Then to the Ghion Hotel for lunch.  This hotel has huge grounds, probably 300 acres of lush gardens. Two weddings were going on there, wow was that stunning.  We had some good lunch there and then went back to the grounds.  It was amazing, one wedding was Protestant and the other was Muslim.  Their guests all gathered around them and were chanting and signing and dancing to God/Allah to bless the marriages.  It was an amazing sight that we will never forget.  Back at the hotel, the girls are sleeping and the thunder is going crazy.


Two more thing that I forgot. After we found the kid on the street we went to a clinic to get medical help but leaving Markos car wouldn't start again because he had been using the headlights.  So a guard and myself had to get it push started in a space of about 15 feet. 


Then today on the ways to lunch a guy on a bike ran into a car in front of us.  What next?