9 weeks

Thanks to our wonderful trip leader, I understand that it's 9 weeks until we travel.  Boy, are we excited.  This week has been full of Ethiopia business:

• talking through itinerary options
• skyping with Dr. Rob and his sweet wife, Kaight
• trying to connect with other Americans in Soddo
• trying to make new connections in Halaba.
• daydreaming about packing, ethiopian food, and those beautiful faces in Shanto

It's been a busy week for me but there's so much left to do:

• drum up prayer support
• drum up some financial support.
• think through some questions to ask Judah's birth mom since she doesn't spew it out like me.
• connect with those in Soddo and Halaba.

Ryan and currently have a little over $3,000 for the trip.  If you're willing and able to help us along financially, we'd appreciate it.  The following is a link for secure donation plus some important info that assures your donation can go to our trip:

https://secure3.convio.net/chc/site/Donation2?df_id=1420&1420.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=zafei1cb21.app333b

REAL IMPORTANT!!  You need to enter the trip ID which is ET130301T and in the memo line you need to say "donation for Tamara".  Hope Chest is working with 1,000's of people.  It's important to label stuff.