The blue buscapade

I went with Dr. Paul and Ileana after work to their house for a quick bite ... glahp and rice Doc called it. It was good glahp at that too :). I then walked with them, little Robert, and the guitar up to the pastry shop about a mile away. They had a treat and I watched. It was starting to threaten darkness within the hour, so I thought I'd be brave and take the little blue bus. It cost me 5 birr to get to Mexico square and then I thought I'd be really creative and say "Edna Mall" to the bus jockeys until one of them said get in ... The adventure deteriorated from there and I was on a bus that was on its way to Bole road, except I did not see anything familiar. I was on the bus for 30 minutes and it finally stopped and one of the passengers told me it was the end of the line. Still no Edna mall ... I got another bus where the jockey said he was going to Edna; when we passed Dembel mall, I knew I was on Bole but not quite sure where. A woman on the bus took pity on ferenge and told me to take a cab. I got home for 30 birr and learned a lesson about the blue bus at night ... don't. Taking the bus to Paul's is easy. I go to Sarbit then walk for 10 minutes from there; piece of cake for 5 birr. My modified plan for coming home is to bus it to Mexico then take a cab from there. I will find out from Doc Ferenge the "proper" cab fare from Mexico to my guest house which I believe will be about 30 birr. In the morning I am going to Paul's for pancakes and not sure what after that. I put strings on the guitar and it sounds great. I made up a chord chart for Tagel which he will practice on our journey this Sunday as per a previous post. The Ileana flag today is green ...