October 20, 2012 - October 21, 2012

Oct. 20, 2012, Saturday

Today we packed our bags and headed to Cincinnati to board a flight to Washington, D.C.
I figured that we  I would be nervous...which I was a little bit but, I have to say I did not freak out like I thought I would! We made it to the airport fine, got checked in and got to our gate fine! Everything went good......but, then our flight was delayed.....15 minutes.....then 2 hours! So adding to the fact that we were there about 4 hours before our flight was supposed to leave....it seemed like we waited there a l l  d a y  l o n g! So by the time the plane did get there we were pretty much ready to go and there wasn't any nervousness by now....the tiredness overcame the nervousness and we were so just ready to get to Washington! We finally arrived in DC around 9pm, found our shuttle and went to our motel, had dinner, showered and went to bed!

Oct. 21, 2012, Sunday

I woke up around 5:30 am and started getting ready while Joey slept, of course! We left the motel around 7 am and went to the airport. The airport in Washington was HUGE compared to the one in Cincinnati but, we managed to get where we needed to be and again we were early! So we waited and waited.....got something to eat.....and waited........and waited..... (Oh yeah, we did stand in line for about an hour for no reason because we didn't know what we were doing....the guy was checking people in from other flights or something and we stood there in line like dummies! Oh well....first time flyers.....we didn't know! Hahaha!)

Anyway, we finally boarded the plane for our 13 1/2 hour flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia around 11:30 am. This was the new Dreamliner and it was pretty nice, especially for your first/second time flying! There were games and movies but nothing is really entertaining for 13 hours!

So to make a long story short....we arrived in Addis Ababa around 6:45 am on Monday, October 22.