Last Day

We decided to go down to Bole Road on Sunday, our last day in Addis. I wanted to take J to Limetree, a great cafe frequented by expats for its excellent food made from fresh ingredients. Limetree is also just above the Boston Spa, so I thought maybe it would be a good time to get a massage, but they only had Swedish, and J loathes oil massage so we skipped it. Up at Limetree, it was packed as usual with savvy Ethiopians and their European friends, but we found an open table by the window. I ordered a lime juice with mint and J had a sweetened lasse, and since we had just had brunch 3 hours before, ordered a sandwich and a veggie tortilla wrap to share. It turned out to be plenty of food and we both loved the sandwich: roast beef and walnuts with fresh cucumber and lettuce on brown loaf bread.
After Limetree, we tried to head over to the Addis Ababa Museum, where they apparently still have on exhibit the first telephone in Ethiopia and other such items of historical importance, but it was closed. We browsed in Book World, since a new branch had opened up next door, and then caught a mini bus toward our hotel. It stopped 3/4 of the way there, near the big Megenanga bus stop, so we walked around the corner and piled into another mini bus headed to Gerji. It was a fun day out on the town, but we both had some work to finish up before departure, so we spent the rest of the evening on our computers. Later that evening, J reminded me to do online check-in for our flight the next day, but the Internet was so slow, I ended up watching Swordfish and most of Die Hard 4.0 on cable waiting for all the pages to download as I changed our seat reservations so we could sit together. Well, at least I hadn't seen those flicks and they were pretty good.