Arrived in Dubai

We departed this morning from SFO after juggling with luggage contents and worrying about going over weight limits, and in the midst of this were blessed to have a very special send off from some of our "home team" Ann, Fidelia, Frank, Joanne and Mary Beth who were so supportive in practical and spiritual ways (and cheering us on as this picture was taken). We are also grateful for the support of Mike, Cathleen and the many others keeping us in their thoughts and prayers.                                                                                          
  

 We have since arrived in Dubai safely, and a few of us went on a little tour of the rather impressive city of Dubai, sponsored by the airline hotel where we have our long layover. We are looking forward  to flying to Addis Ababa tomorrow morning, a 4 hour flight, and then meeting with the ACT team.and learning how we will best serve their needs in the coming 2 weeks 

It may be a few days before we can update again as we will have to get settled, and then set up our internet and we expect internet and cell phone coverage to be sporadic at best. Even posting this blog was an  adventure, as Google is translated into Arabic when you use it in the UAE (fancy that), so had to guess which buttons were for what and the formatting is different. As Dorothy said in the
Wizard of Oz, we are not in Kansas  anymore--although I was able to catch a Pokemon here


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