Last Blog from Colombia

Well folks, all our bags are packed and we're ready to go. Amazingly, we won't need any additional suitcases for the trip home - 6 suitcases and 6 carry-ons is enough, I think!

Today we went to lunch with Martha and helped her out by donating a scanner/printer so she can more effectively continue to help adoptive families. We also needed to pick up Yamile's passport with her visa at the U.S. Embassy. We were told to be there at 3:30. We ended up getting there at about 3:40 and the place looked kind of deserted. We came to the main entrance and had to knock on the window to get someone's attention. They let us in and then we went to the window where we'd applied for the visa yesterday. There was no one at any of the windows and we had to keep banging on the bullet-proof glass to get someone's attention. The man who assisted us already had all of Yamile's information ready. He handed it over to us and we were done in about 5 minutes. What a relief! We were starting to sweat it out a bit, thinking we'd arrived too late.

We leave the hotel at 10 PM tonight (8 PM Pacific Time) so we can be at the airport three hours before our flight. This should allow time in case there are any unforeseen delays at the airport (and, with Bogota's traffic, you never know how much time you'll need to get there). We board the plane for our 7-hour voyage at 1:35 AM and we'll be at LAX at 6:30 AM Pacific Time. We look forward to seeing Gus and Melissa Pidal and their boys during our lengthy layover in L.A.

See y'all soon!