July 1st!!!!

Great news!! Yesterday afternoon, we received an email from Sue letting us know that we have a confirmed embassy date of Tuesday, July 1st at 2pm. YAY!!!!

We leave Austin at 6:30am on Friday, June 27th and arrive in Addis on Saturday, June 28th at 9:05pm. Our trip will look like this: Austin to Newark, Newark to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Addis Ababa. We have a 6 hour layover in Newark, which won't be any fun. However, we're going to be on our way and I doubt that a long layover in New Jersey will distract us from our joy. The great thing is that our flight leaves Newark at 5:15, which will allow us the opportunity to sleep during the nighttime flight. We're hoping that will help tremendously with the jet-lag:)

We have received plenty of balls to take with us to Addis. One of Jessica's friends is involved in Vacation Bible School this summer and their outreach this summer is...get this: "Gospel" soccer balls! So, they will be giving us a large number of soccer balls painted with the colors of salvation on it. We have another friend that owns a sporting goods store and he's donating an assortment of balls for us to take. We're so excited to deliver these to the children in Ethiopia.

That's all for now-we just wanted to share our good news with everyone!