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Merry Christmas friends.

We arrived home safely on xmas afternoon, had a lovely dinner with my folks and flew down to Nelson on boxing morn where we'll be spending 2 weeks.

We're both grateful that you've been traveling along with us in blog form, as well as a little embarrassed about how poor our blogging has been. We knew that there would be challenges but we had no idea about how slow the internet would be and how little blogging time we'd have. So thanks for putting up with our little experiment, we'll be better at it next time i promise! :-)

We had an amazing week in Addis. I spent a very memorable 5 months there in 2005, so I was super keen to show Rosey around. We had a bunch of friends to catch up with, a handful of projects that we were dying to see, as well as eat our way through a week's worth of delicious Ethiopian cuisine.

Ethiopia is a beautiful country in so many ways: beautiful people, culture, land. Heres' a few photos of what we got up to...




Traditional music

Rosey gettin' down!


Injera and wot- Ethiopian food. YUM!















































Visiting the fistula hospital was an amazing experience. Our friend Yasin drinking a macceato. I was working on a cup of Shai (sweet cinnamon tea).


Ethiopian taxi's










The other reason we wanted to spend some time in Addis was to size up future work prospects and see if we could sense whether God was calling us to come back for a decent length of time. We definitely feel like God has been speaking although not in the ways we were expecting. We'd love to go back to Ethiopia sometime in the future, but for now there's plenty to be done at home.

Thanks for following our adventures. Lots of love
Nathan and Rosey.