Friday

Yesterday we went for a tour of the orphanage around 11:30. Times are very approximate here. It is hard to get use to waiting for a hour before an appointment gets underway. Cecelia (our LSS contact) gave us a tour of the building and showed us all the little bunk beds and play rooms and the nursery with all the little hospital bassinets. It is a private orphanage so it is pretty nice compared to the government ones. There are about 130 children at this one. Many are want they call "under protection" meaning there is something going on with the parents so the children are kept here until they can go back with there parents or can be adopted.

After our tour we meet with a representative of the orphanage and she answered some of the questions we had. Most of the information we had received when we got the paperwork with the referral. She did have a copy of the hospital birth certificate so we found out Kariana was born at 9:44 am. We also paid for our lawyer and found out she is a "good" one and should help move things along quickly.

We had a long taxi ride back because it was raining and Friday. This meant there were more vehicles on the road. The boys fell a sleep in the taxi. It was getting very hot so we rolled down the windows a little and then the driver would turn up the heat, then we would roll the windows down a little more so he would turn the heat up more. It must of been because he thought the baby was cold because he had his window down the whole time.

In the afternoon we had an appointment at 3:00 to get some paper work notarized. We finally left about 3:45 because our guide was stuck in traffic getting back to the hotel. We walked a few blocks to a little store front where that is all they did. They confirmed our passports and then we had to sign our signatures and put a fingerprint of our index figure by our signature.

Last night at supper one of the families was celebrating that they have received the approval from the courts and are going to go home next week. The staff here got really into it and started dancing and go many of the hotel occupants. It as a good time. One of the staff is really outgoing and she was having a very good time. There were a lot of laughs. Kaleb even got out there with her and was dancing around.

We are getting ready to head out for a tour of old town and the Gold Museum so we will have to post more later today.

Kerry, Cresta, Kaleb, Cohen and Kariana.