Paperwork update

Hi friends,
It's been a less than stellar week as we ran around like crazy getting things translated, notartized, apostilled (a fancy stamp from the sec of state), copied, and overnighted off to Chicago. BUT the good news is that the papers have been sent off to the Haitian consulate in Chicago, where they'll be stamped once again. They should have arrived there this morning and we're hoping to get them back from the consulate in the next few days. As soon as they're back we send them off to Haiti! Then we're done w/ the Haitian paperwork (we hope). The US paperwork is just waiting for our fingerprint day. So, we're on track so far.

A number of you have asked if we ever ate the chicken that the pastor had killed for us. Yes, yes we did. You don't let a gesture like that go by!

Haiti story of the day: We went out to a local bar one night in Jeremie. We sat outside with Marialyn and three of her Haitian friends in the pitch black darkness. (Each night when it got dark around 6 pm you didn't know if the electricity would come on throughout the city or not. If it did turn on you wouldn't know how long it would stay on). That night there was electricity, so there was music playing by the pitch black dance floor, but no lights. Soon our Haitian friends decided to teach us to dance to "kompas", Haitian music. They thought Sean's famous moves were hilarious, since their dance moves are very very subtle (and his are far from subtle). They worked hard to teach us the art of subtle dancing, saying over the music, "Listen to me, listen to me, left, right, left, right" The music was a mix of Haitian music and 80s Michael Bolton (which they all knew the words to!). Soon Sean and I were being passed around the dance floor. We had all decided that it was time to leave when...Elton John's "Can you feel the love tonight?" came on. Sean, Marialyn, our new Haitian friends, and I got into a circle and swayed back and forth singing Elton John. One of many moments during the trip that we stopped and said, "Is this really happening???"

That's all for now. Keep the love for this baby girl and the prayers for our sanity and patience coming.