The Champion Family

Well, I am packing for..I do not know what. I hope a wonderful adventure. My sister, Eve, is adopting a little girl from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We get to meet her on Thursday, then go to court on Friday, where she officially becomes Eve's daughter. All my life I have said I wanted to go to Africa...I thought it would be on a safari, Egypt, somewhere of awww. Ethiopia was not where that visit would be...but I will experience something more wonderful then lazy hungry lions, or an old stone structures...the miracle of changing a child's future.

My first leg of travel starts in Birmingham, Sunday morning. I then fly to Chicago, then to Washington DC, where I will meet up with Eve. From there we will try to sleep, land in Rome for refueling, and on to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We land there around 7:40 pm Monday. It will be about 38 hours of travel time! Depending on how we feel, we will go to market and putter Tuesday and Wednesday.

The second leg of my trip will be all about the little miracle about to take place...