Safe Arrival

Hi Everyone:

David successfully left Addis with Sitota early Monday morning arriving in London around 4pm. Everything went very well. She was an excellent traveller and seemed to enjoy her flight and then taxi drive through London to the guest house. Satu was busy showing London to her Mom and Dad so Sitota and David had a quiet date and snooze before she met her Finnish Grandparents. The meeting went great at 11pm after Satu, Erik, Laina and Seppo got back a live production of Joseph in Technicolour. Erik and Satu also got to see a full production of the Lion King that was awesome. They had a great time together.

Tuesday morning we all had an English Breakfast together before departing for the airport and goodbyes. The flight from London was superb and the seats were great. We were given two extra seats so we had plenty of room to stretch and relax. We arrived safely at 2pm on Tuesday. After several formalities having Sitota's paperwork validated by immigration etc she was officially landed. We were greeted by Ann as we came through the gates and that was an emotional time for all. Later, Auntie Laura caught up with us and we had many photos and Sitota was passed around to everyone for a little visit. We phoned Gramma and Grampa and Risto and Simon for a conference call so they got to talk to Sitota and she did scream some nice greetings to her new family.

After supper everybody was so tired and were off to bed early. David and Al made a final trek to the airport at midnight to pick up Seppo. His flight was an hour and a half late so thanks to Al for keeping David awake at the airport and acting as chauffeur. Today we will head home to CB hopefully their before to late this afternoon. See you all later as the week unfolds.
Thanks to all of you and we will post some final thoughts and photos from everyone.

Take Care David, Satu, Seppo, Erik & Maija-Sitota