Embassy Day

We were up bright and early for a 6:50am meeting with Sonia, our translator. We went to the Embassy, which is 2 buildings down the street from our hotel. We were taken to a waiting room where we settled in for the wait. Fortunately, we were number 10 of 30 families. Caleb and Tim started playing Uno. Before long, Martita was tempted to join in and I was impressed how much she remembered of the rules. She even beat Caleb the first round. I am pleasantly surprised at the growth of their collaboration and the reduction in their competitiveness, at least for the moment. :) It was fun to see them happy for each other even when they lost.

Our translator explained the error on the birth certificate and passport and we were advised to continue through the process and then explain the situation to the consular at the end. She was VERY pleasant and agreed it was an important error to correct and did everything to help make it easy for us. Our attorney will work on getting the new BC and passport and Sonia will turn it in to get our Visa. We were so relieved and grateful to not have to stay in the city to redo the Embassy appointment on Friday. The consular expressed her delight that we had chosen to adopt an older child. Her warmth was an unexpected surprise. :) I found myself tearing up during both interviews as the profundity of the event hit home.

The rest of today was spent mostly in down time since we were all so tired. We ate lunch, hung out at the apartment playing games, molding clay, watching TV, etc. Tomorrow we will head to the zoo. It's been a great day relaxing. Hopefully, we'll all feel better rested for the zoo tomorrow.