Integration Meeting & Back to Bogota

So last night was rough! We figured Daniel would not wake up until late. Nope , it was 6am and our little ray of sunshine was up and ready for the day. As if last night did not happen. So we started the day. Our usual breakfast and then played in the room until close to the time for the meeting.
Jaime and Silvia , our Gladney family Coordinator and translators arrived with Graciella, our attorney. We were so excited to see familiar faces. This is one huge step closer to getting home. They called the ICBF personnel and the meeting was going to be held at the hotel. We were nervous about the meeting. Unsure about what to expect but it was like a huge get together. The minor defender, social worker and psychologists do a great job of making you feel at home. Again you can tell they truly care for the children under their protection.They commented on how the meetings can be stressful on the child because sometimes they think they are going to take them away again.  They gave us the big ok. This is huge because now our documents enter the court system in Girardot. We now wait on the judge for our Sentencia/adoption decree.

Before the meeting Silvia and Graciella took a cab to Flandes to get a copy of Daniel's birth certificate. Unfortunately the office was closed. We need his old birth certificate in order to apply for the new birth certificate with our names as Mom and  Dad. We all headed out to the Notary but they were closed also. So we returned to the hotel to get lunch and check out. Silvia, Jaime and Graciella went out for lunch with the ladies from ICBF. We will get back together at 1:30 and head to the notary.
Silvia took us to the notary . We stood in line for the doors to open. A lady on a moped drove up , opened the door and then a huge amount of people arrived to get in line Where did they come from? Thank goodness Silvia was there. She is a women on a mission and in charge. We are just here for the ride.  Everything was done. Now we are going back to Bogota.
Usually it takes 3 hrs to get to Bogota. We ran into some TERRIBLE traffic. Our 3 hr drive took close to 6 hrs.  This was Daniel's first ride in the car seat with us. He did not like the seat at first so it made us wonder if he has been in one before. Maybe not because we saw several children riding motorcycles . The kids ride the motorcycle sandwiched in between the 2 adults, balanced and riding along perfectly. Daniel did sleep for a few hours . Thank goodness because as it got closer to dinner,bathtime and bedtime Daniel became very restless.

We arrived back to Las Palmas around 8pm. They are so nice here. Always with a warm welcome. They even saved us some dinner. Thank goodness because we were HUNGRY.  We did meet another family from Denmark they adopted a girl 18 yrs ago and returned for a visit. That is really neat. 
The weather in Bogota is cold . We made sure Daniel was nice and warm. We tucked him into his crib unsure if he would react to the new environment. He did his normal waking up in the night . We were just glad it was not a repeat of last night.  I have noticed that we crash to sleep nightly. It is sort of funny.