Bahar Dar part 1

This was a incredible day. We were met at the airport by our guide nick named Fish. He was great. He actually helped guide the people that filmed the Imax movie Blue Nile Mystery. He guides for eight months then goes to Gondor for school to become a Veterinarian. The guides here are professionally trained and must pass an exam. Fish told us when he went to take the exam 5,000 people took it and only 120 passed.
He took us to our hotel which was beautiful and right on Lake Tana, the lake that feeds into the Blue Nile. Unfortunately we had to change our plans and we are only going to in Bahar Dar for one day as we didn't arrive in Ethiopia until a day later than planned. The city is very green and beautiful with a lot of colorful birds. For those of you in Phoenix the love birds that are in Phoenix are native to Ethiopia. The weather actually reminds me of the dry air back home. Shortly after our arrival, we loaded on a boat and went to the monastery. On the lake, there are roughly 27 monasteries. I think there are 14 islands some of which are men only. We arrived to the other side of the lake and walked a short distance to the monastery. It was a small....

(to be continued...Sorry folks, this is all the email included so I guess you will have to tune in next time for the rest of the story. I'm also emailing any comments left (only Meghan so far) to them in Ethiopia so if you have any thoughts like just add them to the comments and they will send them to them while they are there.- from Ty's sister)