The final day we were in Ethiopia, Joshua and I joined my mom and Krissy in a little touring. The first thing we asked the driver to do was take a drive in the country. It was beautiful. The sky was clear and the air smelled heavily of eucalyptus. It was a wonderful change from the pollution and population of the city.
According to our driver, this grouping of homes would be much like the homes in the Sidama area where Joshua Gebeyehu was born. (These pictures take place in the Oromic region quite near Addis Ababa.)
This art work was carved into the mountainside by students. It was quite large, this is just a small section.
We stopped to take a picture of this horse for my dad. There are no fences, but livestock is carefully tended. Most times there were people out keeping an eye on the livestock. We saw donkeys, goats, cows, and horses.
This young boy ran across the field to greet us when we stepped out of the car for a photo. We gave him a sucker. He gave us a big grin.
This is a close up of a hut - looks warm and cozy, huh?
We saw many donkeys loaded with firewood and kindling being driven down the mountain. These are the lucky people. My mom and Krissy saw many women heavily loaded with firewood on their drive up Entonto. They were appalled at the difficult burden these women carry daily in order to make a living.
See the woman crouched down in the median? She was "mowing" the grass. It was the worst job I saw while driving through Addis. Some "lawn mowers" are women clipping off grass with their fingers, luckier "lawn mowers" use a shears.
These men were moving dirt to level a site. Two men would scoop dirt onto this contraption and these two would carry the dirt across the site and dump it in the low spot. 
This is how buildings are constructed. They use this type of scaffolding, no planks or tie-offs. When I asked our driver if many men were injured doing construction he replied, "Ah, yes!" If you zoom in you can see that a beautiful building is in the making, but the method of construction would cause many safety violations here.
This is a view into a yard near the guest house. I believe this woman did laundry for a living. She worked and worked all day long.**I still need to post on Children's Heaven and "the shoes". I will get to it next week. I am really tired today and I want to make sure to do Children's Heaven justice. It was a very special visit.
