Day 4

We all slept and finally felt recovered from our jet lag.  Arose late and ready for the students to experience a minibus for the first time.

  Actually 2 minibuses to get to the campus of the Addis Ababa University where there is an ethnographic museum.  The campus is the former palace of Haile Selassie.  Lovely campus, an oasis in the city with palm trees, and other exotic flora.  Weather in Addis this time of year is ideal.  Bright blue sky all day, every day, never rains and 75 during the day; cool 45 at night.

After that we waked to the National Museum,, home of Lucy, the oldest known hominid, now 3.2 million years old.

Minibus back to our guest house.  Electricity in our neighborhood has been out for 12 hours,  but the Washington Hotel across the street has an emergency generator and therefore available wifi. 

If we can figure out how to get there, we will likely go hiking in the Entoto mountains just outside of Addis tomorrow, before work begins on Monday.