Ululations

So how cool is this -- ululating with old ladies from Addis Ababa in a crowd of 20,000 white-shawled pilgrims as the sun rises on Ethiopian Christmas?

Pretty damn cool, I tell ya.

Much too much to blog about while paying per minute, but I will say this about our dusty, 4-wheel drive-required trip to a 9th century church in a cave yesterday: "Save the donkey. Save the world." (I'll explain later. But all credit to The Ringleted One for that one.)

Last evening in Lalibela. The pilgrims have gone home, the sheep have been slaughtered for Christmas dinner, and we are headed to Aksum ourselves tomorrow for a brief stay before returning to Addis.