"No Problem!"

There are so many other fun stories about our trip to Mukatore. We each rode in a horse buggy very far down the road from the orphanage. We visited the Portugese bridge that is amazingly old and connects two sides of a ravine on one side of a huge canyon. It is like the Ethiopian Grand Canyon. The canyon is behind and to the right of me in the picture. I had no idea there was anything like it there. The height and magnitude of its creation takes your breath away.

As we tried to leave the canyon area, I found out that the van we had rode all the way out here in, and the van we expected to ride back in, had to be pushed to jump-start it. Unfortunately, Tefera, our driver, and some nice and helpful men couldn't get it started. They pushed it off the road and onto a grassy area going downhill. Most of us were ready to pull a "Little Miss Sunshine" moment and jump in as we ran alongside it if they could just get it started. Just when I was pretty sure we might have to spend the night, and the rest of our team would never know what happened to us, the van started coughing and started up. The Ethiopian term that everyone says with a smile even in incredibly impossible circumstances took on new meaning that evening: "No problem!"