Things we should have brought: More umbrellas. It rained all day today. I’ve never seen so many umbrellas in my life. And at every entrance to a building is a convenient umbrella bag dispenser. There is also this crazy practice of violently waving your umbrella to shake it dry. It doesn’t seem to matter who […]
Category Archives: Our Adoption Adventure
All worked out for good
The day started well…we even left on time. The fun started after we cleared security. Here are some things from the first day that ended up being for the best. NOT SO GOOD: After clearing security we noticed our flight was delayed. Turns out that the crew assigned to our plane had only arrived at […]
We Made It
Just a quick post to say we’re safely in Korea. I’ll post more details and pictures later.
To Korea or Bust!
**UPDATE** I forgot to mention a note about timing. We receive Ty’s travel call on the 365th day we’d had his referral. Original Post Follows… Well the day started with DC telling me that Ty had another visa interview for tomorrow. Still not sure what that was about because an hour later, our social worker […]
Which do you want first…?
The Bad News? Ty has still not been issued a visa. I’ll continue to stalk DC’s visa call center… Or the Good News? We got an update today on Ty. It’s dated January but that’s been the average turn around time. He’s doing well and it gave us a picture of his personality and schedule. […]
Visa Interview Scheduled
Ty’s visa interview is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14th (Seoul time). Come on travel call!!!
Korea on the Mind
We’ll be spending Spring Break in the US. No offense to anyone we’ve made plans with for this week but I would rather be in Korea picking up Ty. As of Friday, our Packet 3 had not been returned to the consolate. Still waiting. The scene: Friday at school. PJ is staring off into space […]
P3!
**UDPATE** Patrick and I were both thinking that this step put us within a week of our travel call. I even told some people that today. However, based on an email from our social worker and some other timelines on a forum I’m a member of, it seems that the elusive travel call could still […]