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Day 28 – City Tour, LAN and Bubble Wrap

Friday 4th May, 2012 2 Comments

After breakfast this morning, Enrique organised a driver with a van to take us on a city tour. We stopped at several lookouts with views over the city, including the Cristo Rey monument. Unfortunately, it was a very hazy day – even more hazy than our last visit here in 2009, so we couldn’t see … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Adoption, Colombia 2012

Day 27 – AcuaParque

Thursday 3rd May, 2012 3 Comments

Today Magnolia picked us and the American family up with a minivan at 11am to take us all to AcuaParque de la Caña – a water park. We were worried about the weather early on, but we needn’t have been concerned – the weather in the east of the city is usually warmer and drier than where … [Read More »]

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Day 26 – Passport

Wednesday 2nd May, 2012 7 Comments

Late start today – we try and get every last bit of sleep we can to deal with being woken up twice a night by a hungry girl. After breakfast, Leanne had us put on some nice clothes and we took some family photos out on the balcony near our room. We hung around the … [Read More »]

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Day 25 – Pocoyo

Tuesday 1st May, 2012 Leave a Comment

The 1st of May is a public holiday here in Colombia, so we weren’t able to finalise the copies of the sentencia and birth certificates, or get the passport for Nicol today. Enrique organised for the American family staying at the hotel to visit the transportation museum in the morning, but we’ve already been there, … [Read More »]

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Day 24 – Sentencia and Parque Artesanal Loma de la Cruz

Monday 30th April, 2012 2 Comments

Up early this morning – Magnolia picked me up at 8:30am and we took our taxi to the court offices where we met our lawyer, ready to sign the sentencia. After a short wait, we were able to check the sentencia, but I found a small mistake in one of the passport numbers so we … [Read More »]

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