Random Rwanda Info.

When it comes to the process here, it consists of a lot of waiting, we are literally at the mercy of the different officials as to what happens when.  Yesterday we waited about 3 hours at the sector just to be able to sign the Act of Adoption.  The official Act of Adoption wasn't done until the end of the day, so our POA picked it up so we could bring it to court today.  We waited at court today for about 2 1/2 hours, just to get a court date and our POA made sure all the documents were in order.  It actually took less time to get our court date than our POA expected.  He made it seem like we would be waiting all morning.  On a random note, the books used for court and at the sector are gigantic, like large science notebooks on steriods.  On a very exciting note, we got an expedited court date for tomorrow.

You also wait a while to eat meals as well.  Everything here definitely functions on Africa time.  We've eaten twice at Bourbon Coffee now, which is just amazing.  But you wait at least an hour maybe two for your food. 

To give you a glimpse of the culture.  There are children everywhere.  Statistics say that half of the population here is under 18.  Which makes sense, you see children everywhere.  The kids here love us and all want to shake our hands.  You see babies everywhere all tied on their mommas backs.  The women's dresses are made of the most beautiful brightly colored material.  You see lots of children in uniforms all coming and going from school.  You also see many, many street childen who don't have uniforms.  Many kids don't go to school here because they can't afford it.  During the day you mostly smell desiel fuel, you also occasionally get a wiff of sewage and fires from people burning trash.  At night when everything calms down you smell a beautiful aroma of flowers.  The flowers here are just beautiful, Luke loves taking pictures of them.  It is one of their rainy seasons right now, so it typically seems to rain in the afternoons.  The weather is just beautiful, it's humid, but not too bad, and it's in the 70s during the day and 60s in the evening.  The traffic here is crazy, worse than anything any American complains about.  In the capital city the population is over 1 million people, so on a work day roads are out of control.  It's funny too that they use their horns religiously, different number of honks mean different things.

Today was our 3rd day seeing Kyler and he was so much better, we even got to visit twice today.  You could tell he was getting so much more comfortable with us.  He was more playful and I even got him to smile.  We are so smitten over this little boy, it was very hard on Luke today to leave him.  Praying everything goes smoothly this week so we can keep him forever.

Please pray for court tomorrow and that we pass in the same day.  Also pray for the family I mentioned yesterday, their paperwork is still help up and they really need God to move mountains.  Thanks for checking in on us.  Sorry for no pictures today, we've had lots of technology issues and uploading my pictures is one of them.  Praying that we pass court tomorrow so I can share some pictures of our beautiful baby boy and be one step closer to coming home.