This will be a quick update because I have to be up in less than 3 hours
to start getting everyone ready for the airport. The past two days have
been great. As Richard mentioned yesterday, everything went well at the
embassy and as a reward for their superb patience (there was a lot of
waiting involved) and excellent behavior, we took another stroll to the
store and are pizza for dinner. . . .again
. After lots of late nights and early mornings, the boys actually
slept until 8 this morning. We laid in bed and snuggled and watched
cartoons as long as we possibly could before heading downstairs for a
late breakfast. Today we took the boys on a walk to the center of Sofia.
We had a great time,took lots of pictures and eventually ended up at
McDonald's for lunch (not my first choice, but the boys really wanted to
go). After lunch we went looking for luggage. I have never adopted a
child who came with any personal belongings. These three boys have so
much stuff we had to buy another suitcase to fit it all! I will have to
save my thoughts on that for another day since I am running short on
time, but let me just say that sorting through and repacking all of
their belongings made my heart ache and I had to take a break halfway
through. In short, we will be checking 10 bags and will have 5 carry ons
and a stroller tomorrow. After the packing was complete we had the
privilege and pleasure of dining with Toni
(who has helped to bring all 8 of our sweet Bulgarians home) so that
she could deliver our passports, visas and immigration paperwork and
meet the boys! Oh, how I love this amazing woman! We spent most of the
days talking about our trip home tomorrow. The boys are very anxious (in
every sense of the word) and by this evening, those nerves were really
starting to fray. Gabe screamed and cried for about two hours before he
finally went to sleep. Eli became completely manic and was bouncing off
the walls like a ping pong ball and Jesse's stomach was upset. Needless
to say, it was another late night. We are leaving for the airport at
4:45 am and, unless we are able to move our final flight up, we are
looking at about 26 hours of travel time. This is going to be a very
hard, very long day for all of us so please keep us in your prayers. I
am sure that Richard will keep everyone posted on our progress and I
will be sure to update once we are home
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