Meeting our son for the first time in two days!!

We leave tomorrow to spend 3 days in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where we will meet our son for the first time, and see his home for the last 8 months (a care center in Addis Ababa).  We'll get to visit with him twice while we are there but the primary purpose of this first trip will be to  have a court hearing where the judge will confirm that we met him, and still want to adopt him and that all the paperwork necessary has made its way to the court.  At the end of the hearing, the Judge proclaims something like "then he is yours!".  Our agency is quick to point out not *really*.  He will then need a passport, birth certificate and a visa issued before we can go back and bring him home.

Wish us luck and stay tuned if you want to follow us on our journey to Ethiopia!  We land Tuesday night at 10:30pm Ethiopian time...almost exactly 23 hours from our departure from Rochester.  Addis Abba is 8 hours later than Eastern Standard Time.