Our last day in Bogota

Athena with John, John and Jenny, other guests of Zuetana.

A going away gift for Athena from her friend August.

Hello everyone,

We apologize for slacking on blog updates! Since we recieved our sentencia on Tuesday, we have been crazy busy getting ready to come home. We have had several appointments each day to get everything done and have been getting back to the hotel late and putting a lot of our evening time into trying to comfort a very over-tired Athena! We have been so fortunate to get everything done in time to fly home on Saturday. Each appointment needs to go in a certain order. ie-you need to sign certain documents at the courthouse, then take those document to be notorized, then take the notorized documents to the passport office because you need her passport to be able to get the doctors appointment for medical clearance for her visa, then take it all to apply for the visa, make an appointment to pick up the visa, etc..... The point is, we were so lucky to have everything fall into place to be able to fly home on Saturday and not have to wait out the weekend to wrap things up when the offices opened up again on Monday! Cecilia, our coordinator has been amazing with organizing everything and keeping all of our ducks in a row, ordering us drivers, making appointments and being an all around miracle worker:) We are sad to leave our friends here at the hotel who have become our family away from home, but they recieved good news shortly after us and are leaving for home on Tuesday:) We're leaving the hotel tomorrow morning at 5:30 for our 8:00 flight from Bogota to Houston, Texas. After a 2 1/2 hour layover in Houston, hopefully just enough time to make it through immigration, baggage and customs, we have a 2 1/2 hour flight to O'Hare where grandma Nicholson and grandma Janet will be waiting for us:) We have a few last pictures for everyone to enjoy. Hopefully you'll all get to meet Athena soon in person! She's excited to meet all of you. We're going to lay low for a few days after we get home and let her get used to her new home and get comfortable with her surroundings, but we'll certainly start introducing our baby girl to everyone very shortly after that:)

Love from Bogota!

Nic, John and Athena