Early Morning in Ethiopia Day 1

To bed at 12:45, saw 1:45, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45. Will this night ever end? Is there morning in Ethiopia? Does time go backwards? This was the longest night, tossing and turning, listening to the ferrel dogs of Ethiopia barking and fighting and rummaging through the night. Then at 5:15am, the sound of either the Muslim mosque incantations or the Ethiopian Orthodox Church droning on and on for hours. At first, the sound was somewhat intriguing, the alterations in the tone of the voice somewhat beautiful. We sat on the balcony of the guesthouse in the cold morning air listening, watching the sun rise, and waiting to meet our children for the first time.