Flights

As I write this I am sitting in the airport in Frankfurt. We had an hour-long flight to Philadelphia (from Buffalo) and then a 7 hour flight to Germany. Both were pretty uneventful. Although it was 7am Germany time when we arrived, it was the middle of the night in Hamilton, so Alex and I are both exhausted! Exhausted, but excited. We have been waiting for about a half hour now and will board our flight in another 45 minutes or so. Alex is reading (The Rebels’ Hour by Lieve Joris) and I have just finished the book I blogged about earlier by Amy and Josh Bottomly, about their Ethiopian adoption (it was really good!) We spent some time looking around our waiting area and wondering why everyone is going to Ethiopia! A fun enough game to pass time. They are a handful of Ethiopians, some UN workers, and other missionaries, I am assuming. There aren’t too many of us in the waiting area, although we do still have some time before we board. We both slept most of the flight to Germany and are exhausted now! First thoughts on Germany? … Cold! We had to go outside from our plane to the shuttle bus that took us inside. It is freezing (and snowing). Colder than Ontario, I think. I am hungry for some ‘real’ food (not chocolate and candy!) but don’t want to switch any of my money to Euros, so I am holding out. Nothing much else to report! Very soon, we will be in Africa!!