GOING BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yipeeeee!

On Monday, I recieved word that the report from IHNFA had been submitted to the Judge and it would take about two weeks and then I would go to Honduras a week after that.  Well, since I have to train the person who is filling in for me at work, I need at least two weeks before I can get on a plane.  So I asked if I could get my flights booked for the week of September 21 and the agency said Yes!  So this started several days of preparation. First, I had to arrange to get my replacement at work to start work next week.  Then I started dealing with the flights. 

Thank goodness for blogs.  I was working with my travel agent on what flights would work.  I needed flexible flights that I could change on the way home in case things are delayed and I couldn't fly through the US because my son would be traveling on a Honduran passport with a visa to Canada.  So Mexico looked good and we were at the final stages when I read a blog of a Canadian couple who adopted last fall.  They arrived in Mexico in the evening and were going to fly out the next morning.  However, when they arrived at the airport they could not leave because their child needed a visa.  One parent stayed behind immigration with the child and the other parent went out to claim the luggage.  I asked my agency about this and they said that I would have to sleep on the chairs in the airport and hopefully my luggage would be sent on sometime later.  The only flights through Mexico involve staying overnight.

There has to be a better way I thought.  So back to the drawing board we went.  It seems that Hondurans can go to Costa Rica without a visa.  So my agent spent hours trying to sort this one out.  The only problem with the new route was that it was way more expensive.  So I spent a day trying to decide what to do.  I will be travelling on my own with my daughter of seven and my son who is six.  I would be up around 8 in the morning (because my son gets up early) do the airport and flying portion, sit up all night as there is no way I would sleep in an airport on hard chairs, continue travelling the next day, then go through hours of immigration in Vancouver, fly to Nanaimo and then get home close to eight at night.  No sleep, on my own with two sleep deprived children.  NO WAY.  The more I thought about it the more I just couldn't face doing this.  If I had someone else with me who could have gone to the hotel and slept and could spell me off during the day, then I could have done this.  Not on my own.  So, I decided to pay the money to make it easy.  I have to overnight in Toronto which will be fine.  At least it will be in a bed! 

Then I had to figure out what my Dad was doing.  He was going to come for two weeks.  Problem is that he is going to Nepal on October 18 and we won't be back in time from Honduras.  So after debating on whether he should change his Nepal holiday, he decided to come for the first two weeks.  This will be great as I am sure the first few days will be difficult with the transition of my son.  And for my daughter as well. 

So after, two hours in the travel agent's office on Saturday morning, I am booked to go on September 21.  And now that the flights are booked, I can start start to get ready to go.

I can't believe I am almost there!!!!!!