Getting close!

Internet is back up and running. It went out Monday night, and yesterday we learned that a couple from Canada had a very poor connection on a different network that gave access on only their laptop from only their room. They were kind enough to let everyone invade their room and send a few emails.

You haven't missed much here.  We were to go to immigration Monday, but Ety called and said it would be Tuesday at 10:30 instead. Tuesday he kept calling and said that the director was not in, we would wait....at 3:30 he finally picked us up. We went upstairs at the immigration and waited in the hallway while Ety talked to someone in an office. He told us that we will see the director.......and we did....he walked past us down the stairs and out of the building. Yesterday was more of the same, except it was us calling Ety, asking when we could go. He picked us up late in the afternoon and took us back to the immigration. We actually got to see the director this time. He looked at our passports, asked us our names, pretended to look at our file, and then said that we would have our exit papers on Friday after the "high director" looks at our file. Ety told us to trust God that we can leave on Saturday. I told him that I trust God, but I don't trust the immigration.

We ordered pizza again tonight, so delicious! More families have arrived this week to start their exit process. We are the first of our agency to go through this changed process since February. So all eyes are on our cases (our neighbor's file is moving at the same time as ours).

So, as of right now we are scheduled to fly out of here Saturday night.  That will be a 29 hour trip in real time.  Hopefully we get our papers early on Friday and avoid any drama, but that's not usually the way things work around here.  We will be sure we are headed home when the wheels are up on the plane.  

Doug