Trifter

We woke up at the Hilton Addis Abeba where we’re staying around 8a.m. then we walked to Tosa Tererra a few blocks away from our hotel where we had breakfast. We forgot to change our money into Birrs (that is Ethiopia’s currency), but lucky they accepted our credit card. We found out later that $1 equals to 9.36 Birrs. After that at 9a.m. we got a taxi to take us to the Addis Abeba Stadium where we watched a soccer match. We had a great time watching one of the country’s favorite sports. Once the matched was finished at 1p.m. we decided to take a taxi over by the Spain Embassy, U.S. Embassy, and the France Embassy. We just walked around the Embassies to see what they look like. While we were walking around a riot broke out in front of the U.S. Embassy. We tried to watch a little from around the corner, but most of the people in the area were being kicked out so we left.

We were not allowed around the embassies for the rest of the trip. After that exciting journey we arrived at Finfine Restaurant Fluha at 5:30p.m., and we had a great dinner. After dinner we went to Addis Ababa National Museum. The museum told stories from pre-historic times to modern times. My favorite part in the museum was the Lucy skeleton which was found in 1974 and is also said to be 3.2 million years old. Once we went to our hotel it was 8:30p.m. so we went down to the pool at our hotel. While we were at the pool an Ethiopian couple was there. We started talking with them about Ethiopia and its history. They told us how the population has been growing a lot so there are housing shortages. Also poverty is spreading all over now, and how Islam is trying to take over the government. Once we finished our great conversation it was 10p.m. so we headed up to our room to go to bed.