Payson Elen Barrett

Payson Elen Barrett

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Heading To Armenia



We flew out of Atlanta on Friday afternoon. CheChe and Pappy gave us a ride. Caleb was less than excited to be getting back on a plane for 24 hours. He has been quite the international traveler the past 5 months. This makes his 3rd trip to Armenia since March. He has now been to 4 new countries and is filling his little passport up :) Once he got on the plane he was a trooper and slept most of the 9 hours from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Germany. Will and I did not sleep a wink though. We had about an 8 hour layover in Frankfurt so we decided to take advantage of our time their and leave the airport. We did some sightseeing in Frankfurt. We stayed in the city for about 4 hours. It is a beautiful place and we always enjoy seeing new places. The pictures that I am posting are from Frankfurt. Right now I am sitting in Vienna, Austria in the Airport Starbucks enjoying my $10 cup of coffee! I have to say that I never thought a $10 cup of coffee could enjoy a $10 cup of coffee, but I am! The fact the USD is not worth much in comparison to the Euro and that Starbucks is proud of their coffee makes for an expensive coffee, but with very little sleep, well worth the investment! We leave here in about 3 hours and will land in Armenia about 4:35am their time. Armenia is 10 hours ahead of CST. We are not sure what the plans are once we arrive in the morning. We might to in Yerevan and have time to unpack in our apartment then go to Gymuri on Monday morning or they may take us to a hotel in Gymuri to stay until the court hearing is over. We will find out when we arrive. Our court hearing is Monday in Gymuri which is about 2 hours from Yerevan, the capital. This is where here orphanage is so that is where we have the court hearing. I will update you again as soon as we get established internet access in Armenia. Much love! -Jenn

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