Leavin' on a Prop Plane...Oh wait...that's now how that song goes!

Our first day out and about we took a prop plane to test out the landing strip that was made in the airfield. The view was amazing. It was a nice 45 minute flight and we could see little huts the whole way. When we got close to the airfield we could see people running out of their huts and toward the airfield. By the time we landed we had hundreds of people there to greet us. It was very surreal to me....I was like a modern day Jim Elliot flight (not as dangerous though). It was quite unbeleivable to me, an experience I'll never forget.

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Ashley our team leader and I boarding the plane

Some of the locals that planned things for us

A view from above...how beautiful

The welcoming committee :-) Many came

to see the plane and the people it carried.

Some cuties

From the airfield we went to visit the Hospital in Hosanna. There were lots of people there ready to see American doctors. The conditions of the hospital was unlike anything I've seen. We all had a good laugh when the surgeon asked us to take our shoes off and put the sterile, wooden, hospital clogs on to enter the surgery room...I think you'll chuckle too when you see the pics!

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Hospital Clogs we had to wear when entering

the "sterile" surgical area

A Hospital Room with approximately

12 patients in it...this was not rare.

Operating Room

After we visited Hosanna Hospital we went to the medical clinic in Angancha to check things out and figure out the work flow of the clinic. This clinic was located in the midst of sheer beauty...every direction was absolutely breath taking (I'll post pictures of the clinic in another post).

We hopped back on the plane and went back to Addis Ababa...we made it back safely...it was such a fun flight and day!