Today was our US Embassy appointment. This is the VERY LAST STEP before we can bring Luisa home, and it is now DONE!!! Philip actually took Luisa (along with our facilitator Gloria and our lawyer Lucy) as I was feeling a bit under the weather. Luisa has been doing so great with Philip recently that we felt she could handle a half day with just him. It is about 45 minutes to the embassy, and then we were told to expect a 3 to 4 hour wait, and then a 45 minute drive back. All during her usual nap time. He was a brave man. She did amazingly well, though, and the embassy wait was the shortest that Lucy has ever seen. They were there for under 2 hours total. And we now have her visa!! The last piece of the adoption puzzle.
Caroline started feeling better this afternoon, about 24 hours after starting antibiotics. I think she will be feeling like her normal self by tomorrow. Now if the rest of us can stay strep-free! She wasn't 100% yet this morning, though, so we hung around the hotel again.
We will be headed out of here on Friday. As much as we would like to come home now, there are NO tickets to be had for earlier in the week. In fact, we got the LAST ticket on our flight (which is actually the last ticket from Bogota to Birmingham with our airline for the entire week) for Luisa. Praise the Lord! It would have been a mess had there not been a ticket to be had at all. And we don't have to pay any change fees (although Luisa's ticket cost as much as mine, Philip's, and Caroline's combined).
So, we have chosen to look on the bright side, which is that we have more time to get to know Luisa's birth country. We haven't been able to see much of Bogota due to illnesses and appointments, so now we can get out and do more. And we'll be headed home in four days!
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