And lunch was great. We ate at a restaurant that I had never been to before called "Top View". We had to drive up a mountain to get there and from the windows we could see the entire city of Addis Ababa below. It was a very worthwhile outing and anyone planning on going to Addis should consider eating there and getting one of their frappuccino milkshakes. Very yummy.
We killed some time at the Hilton doing some internet and window shopping. I got Christy the same Lonely Planet Amharic Phrase book that I got for myself last year. I loved it because you could figure out anything you could possibly want to say! I got excited to try it out so we decided that we would try to figure out how to ask the house keepers at the Grace guest house for hot water so we could make our own dinner. After I prepared what I wanted to say I realized that I would be asking for "hot dog" instead of "hot water"!! In fear of accidentally ordering one of our noisy neighbors for dinner I decided to instead practice my Amharic before trying to use it again :-X
And did you know that it's 2002 here right now? I know! Crazy right? It's supposedly more accurate to history and when Christ was actually born. I can't say if that's true but I do know that it's been fun being 12 again.
