Phoebe and Ethiopia, Here we come!

Praise God.

Got the email yesterday that we are set for our July 7th Embassy Date. Court date on Aunt Katy and Uncle Ted's anniversary and Embassy Date on Aunt Denise's birthday. Woo hoo! Okay, perspective. Times and events can change, but it does not seem likely. We plan to arrive in country around June 24/25 to travel and see some of our little one's home. We are going to use Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris at the recommendation of a IAG family and tour the Omo Valley Region which takes us through the part of the country where Phoebe is originally from. While we will not be seeing all of the amazing historical sites on the North, we opted to go to markets, villages and take a more southwestern cultural swing.

Best of all, we get to bring home our baby girl and spend some time seeing where she has lived since October. She will be handed to us on Tuesday the 6th and in our care from there on it. I hope I know what to do. We are excited and terrified all at the same time. I guess all new parents are. We are traveling with another family from NC and that is it so far, a very small travel group. The last couple of travel groups have been large, 5 or more families. But we have emailed back and forth and I am looking forward to sharing this amazing time with them. They have an 8 year old daughter adopted from Kazakhstan and will be adopting a 3 and 4 year old from Ethiopia.

As I mentioned before, we were able to pick her birthday which was going to be Grandma Fitz' birthday as it was so close to birthday that was assigned to her. Somehow, they picked another date, June 28th, for her birthday. I am not really sure how this happened, but its done and not a big deal.

Got lots of paperwork to do, bags to pack, things to tie up at work, yoga classes to find subs for, etc. Oh yeah and a summer school social work exam to pass. Life is busy! Life is good.