Thursday morning

This morning has been great. I meet Chris/Kola at 10:00 and he must have played with the remote control car that we gave him for the first hour. That got me about 5 hugs and a couple of kisses. Sorry that you weren't here to get any David!!! The orphanage psychologist took me around the orphanage today to let me take pictures of Chris/Kola in the different rooms and with some of his friends and teachers. I have to tell you, I don't know if it is a good thing to take him, this orphanage is great. They are very clean, organized and really care for the children. The money they get goes into their well being, I feel very good about the money that we gave them. They have a sports room, and ecological room, a relaxation room a general play room and many others. Everyone was so warm and welcoming to me as I went around and the children were just precious. I saw about 60 and if I understand correctly, there are about 80 in the orphanage. Chris/Kola is one of the oldest children in the orphanage at 6. Most are much smaller than him.

He was very sweet and held my hand as he took me around, but I didn't get much of a good bye as he was hanging onto that car!!!

Just before I left, David called me from the Embassy. Since Jeannie got in touch with Jamey's brother who had Mitch McConnell's office call the Embassy, they are being a little more helpful. David told them they were very concerned that we would not be able to get off the plane, get the physical exam done and get to the Embassy before 5:30. They were working with David today and suggested that we get one person to deliver all the paperwork that we have as soon as the plane lands and then as soon as we finish at the doctor, we will only have Chris's paperwork to complete to get the Visa. They will finish it after 5:30 so that we can pick up the paperwork Friday morning.

We got the last two tickets on Northwest for Friday evening. We will have to spend the night in Amsterdam (we can't leave the airport, because we would have to get a VISA in that country for Kola) so I am trying to get a reservation for the hotel located inside the airport and then our flight leaves at 8 am Saturday morning and we will arrive in Louisville at 2:00pm. Whew.

It looks like it may work out, please pray very hard for us!!!