Since my to do list today includes writing a paper, studying for a test, putting away a pile of laundry so big it makes me want to cry, and convincing my lovely two year old son that peeing on our elderly dog is not even a little funny...I decided that what I really need to do is write a blog.
I picked up a Lonely Planet about Ethiopia and now have a much better idea of what to expect in our July trip to Addis Ababa. There are some neat sounding ethnological/historical museums, a giant outdoor market (the largest in Africa) with lots of pickpockets, yummy restaraunts, and thanks to Ethiopia being the place where coffee was first discovered and having been occupied by Italians - lots of great coffee shops. And it is not a malarial zone, which I am really, really grateful for since a previous round of antimalarial medication left me somewhat unhinged. Best of all, of course, Ethiopia is were our soon to be daughters are living. Since we have found out that we only need to be in Addis for five days, I have decided that Ariel and I will be spending 3 days in Paris on our 'layover'. This will our first and probably only vacation until our kids reach adulthood -so I am seizing the opportunity.
All this thinking about trips has got me making mental lists of trips I want to take as a family -and what better thing to do with a mental list than post it on the web??
I picked up a Lonely Planet about Ethiopia and now have a much better idea of what to expect in our July trip to Addis Ababa. There are some neat sounding ethnological/historical museums, a giant outdoor market (the largest in Africa) with lots of pickpockets, yummy restaraunts, and thanks to Ethiopia being the place where coffee was first discovered and having been occupied by Italians - lots of great coffee shops. And it is not a malarial zone, which I am really, really grateful for since a previous round of antimalarial medication left me somewhat unhinged. Best of all, of course, Ethiopia is were our soon to be daughters are living. Since we have found out that we only need to be in Addis for five days, I have decided that Ariel and I will be spending 3 days in Paris on our 'layover'. This will our first and probably only vacation until our kids reach adulthood -so I am seizing the opportunity.
All this thinking about trips has got me making mental lists of trips I want to take as a family -and what better thing to do with a mental list than post it on the web??
- Take a train trip across Canada from Vancouver to Nova Scotia - with stops in Banff, Montreal and Toronto
Taking our entire extended family to Saladita, Mexico for a few weeks, where we can surf this wave and speak spanish.
- Spending two weeks somewhere in Italy - maybe Cinque Terre, maybe a farm in Puglia
- A month long camping trip down the California Coast
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