Our Embassy Appointment is 6/26!!!!

Yes, that's a week from today!!! Holy crap! This is beginning to seem very real and very scary.

And the to-do list just got a little bit longer. Luckily, we took baby CPR tonite and are doing the car seat safety check (both cars) on Saturday (once I get them out of the boxes and try to figure it out first) so we'll have those items out of the way and some confidence that we can get her form the airport to home in one piece.

We've spent most the the night (that we weren't breathing into plastic babies) trying to find the best flights to Guatemala City and back. Things we're taking into consideration include (not necessarily in the order of importance): cost, layover time, spending as little time in Guatemala City as possible, and, allowing a decent cushion after our visa is supposed to be ready on Friday to get the the airport for an international flight. Unfortunately, it seems there isn't a flight out late enough on Friday afternoon and we'll have to go out on Saturday. Dan wants to get her and flee, minimizing the amount of time we spend there. I can see the value in that.

Kat will show up with (her foster mother) Wednesday morning to be wrenched away from the life she has known for the first 10.5 months of her life and then we have our Embassy appt at 7:15 am Thursday--we have a two hour time difference and also have to get an unknown baby up and ready for travel and our appointment at some ungodly hour. That sounds sooooo fun! I know you're all jealous.

And we have to have a decent layover in Houston so we can clear customs- it will probably take longer than it ever has before, with a Guatemalan National and all (she will NOT be a US citizen until we re-adopt her stateside)......I'll post more definitive travel info once we confirm. That will be tomorrow.

Dan's checking the hurricane forecast right now.....

I'll keep y'all posted as soon as we know what's happening. Oh, and at long last I have posted a new Epic on "Antigone's Epics".