Final Day of Paperwork

Hi Again everyone. I had to tell Maddy it was time for bed. She is really wired from taking a late nap today. She is really getting the hang of this computer.

Anywho, we have had yet another really busy couple of days. Yesterday, after breakfast, we just hung out in our room while Elsie and Simon took all of our paperwork down to the Consulate. We waited in our room just to make sure there wasn't any problems with the paperwork. All is fine, don't worry fokes. After doing that, we spent some more quality time walking around the city. We even went down to Beijing Street again with most of our travel group. We didn't really buy anything, but it was pretty cool being down there. This time the street had probably a 1/4 of the people it did when we visited it on Sunday.

Yesterday evening we had one last dinner with the entire group. It was nice getting together with everyone for one last meal. We are really going to miss hanging out and spending time with our travel group. We have developed this very unique bond with each other that words really can not describe. Hopefully we can all get together with the girls in a few years!

Today was another pretty good day. After breakfast, we did our part to stimulate the local economy (Well, Tina said I did my part ). After the shopping, we had lunch with Eddie, Christy and her daughter Kate. It was nice just sitting around and talking.

After lunch, we all went to the Consulate for our interview and to take the oath. The US consulate moved the Adoption Processing unit over to the other side of the city, so it took us about 30 - 45 minutes to arrive. Traffic was a little crazy this afternoon. Anyway, the interview was really quick (They just wanted to make sure we were who we said we were), we took our oath. After the oath, we received Maddy's immigration paperwork, her Chinese Passport along with her Visa. It was really nice getting all of our paper work in our hands.

Tina spend most of the evening packing, and for the most part, we are in pretty good shape. We won't be leaving for the flight back until around 9:00pm, so we will have a free day tomorrow for the most part. I'm sure we will have to finish packing tomorrow, along with taking care of some other items that we forgot.

Anyway, here are some pictures from our travels the last couple of days.