We will also visit Kathee's childhood friend in East Africa before heading to Ethiopia!

This is the email we just got from Kathee's childhood friend who is living in a neighboring country. We are going to visit them for a few days before heading back down to Addis to finalize the adoption.

Hi there,

Too bad about Tom (Rachel's husband) being gone, but what can you do? Would you be flying on Ethiopian Airlines? It isn’t too much time for me (we asked to stay four or five days), not at all. You might actually be in town for the annual overnight camping trip to the beach with the few other families who actually live here, which would be a lot of fun. Helpful to have you around for that too, if it does end up falling when Tom’s gone.

Love

Rachel

Isaac's thoughts: How fun it will be to visit them, hopefully be an encouragement to them (and not a hindrance/stress), and see the many ways they are serving there in their country and the many people they are impacting there.