Sentencia At last

yeah. Carmen, Isabelle's assistant and niece called me this morning at 10 and told me that our Final Decree was finished and she was picking me up in a half hour to go sign lots of papers. We had to travel by taxi to the original old downtown of Bogota. The Family Court is in a very old unimposing building and Carmen said she was afraid to use the elevator because it might not work. We had to walk up several flights of very busy narrow stairs to get to family court Quince or fifteen. This is a picture of the Family Court 15. there is a ten foot long counter were petitioners cram shoulder to shoulder trying to get the attention of the court clerk, who somehow knows were your case is in all those piles of papers. She brings you your case work and your attorney looks it over and you sign that it is all correct and then it goes through the door to the right to the Judges secretaries who type up your official adoption decree and you look that over for mistakes. Ours had one so it had to be redone while we waited some more. then it goes back to the Judge who signs it and your done all in two and half hours with no where to sit, and if you lose your place at the counter you have to start at the back of the line again. It was like McDonalds at it's busiest.
Our attorney by the way is a very old very small lady. But she could elbow her way in with the best of them. By far the majority of cases being handled here are divorces or patrimony requests.
A shot of the country side on the way to the court, we took a short cut half way up the mountain and back down again in order to get around traffic jams. It is a very hazy day because there is now wind to blow the pollution away.
Here is a fun picture of some of the other children being adopted who are staying at Hotel Paris. The girl Geraldine and Tatianna are putting on play makeup and Andres is checking them out.
Today we Got the court decree signed and got Jon a new birth certificate. Because we were at the court so long we will get the passport and visit the Dr. tomorrow. On Thursday we will go to the US embassy to apply for a visa and pick it up on Friday hopefully and then I can come home.
love Dwight and the boys.