Thursday, August 14, 2008

Back To The Guatemalan Adventure








These are pictures of Alaina here at home in Germany with her brother Smokey. The two of them have grown very close. It was quite hot that day and since there is no airconditioning in Germany I just had her in her oneszie.
So there we are back at the Marriott. It took both of us about 10 days to get over our bout with Rotavirus. Poor Alaina went through a lot of outfits as the diapers were just not constructed to deal with that amount of poop. I have to say though. Even on the other side of it. If pooping were an olympic event, my daughter could bring home the gold. Or perhaps they would construct a special brown medal for that one. Anyway. Alan finally arrived. Boy was he a sight for sore eyes! He even looked taller! I had forgotten he was so handsome. I had been there 5 weeks and missed him very much. That first moment when he got to hold his daughter again was so precious. I loved the look of love and joy on his face. The week that followed until we were able to go home went by so much faster than they'd been going. My world was right now that Alan was with us. I'd forgotten how wonderful it was to have him to lean on. Thank you Jesus for my wonderful husband. He's not always perfect, but he's a perfect match for me. Well, the other interesting things that happened are that our interpreter got us kicked out of the embassy the day we went for our interview. We went back the next day without telling him but he showed up anyway. He almost got us kicked out again! I'll skip all that ensued with him, but the Lord was with us. It was imperative that we get our visa that day. You usually get it the next day, but since we had gotten kicked out the day before we had to get it that day because our plane was leaving the next morning. The first interview guy first liked us because our baby was quiet (the child before us was screaming at the top of its lungs) then it turned out that he is prior military and felt for our situation so he put our case at the top of the next guys list. The next guy turned out to also be prior military and moved our case along so we were able to get Alaina's visa that afternoon. Praise the Lord for His goodness! After that I took care of Alaina while Alan got us packed up and ready to leave the next morning. Then there was the travel day...

2 comments:

Mrs. Happy Housewife said...

Kicked out of the embassy? Now, that's something new. I'd love to know how that happened. So glad you had sympathetic guys the second day.

Rebecca said...

We were being helped by a friend of a friend and this person was pushing us through so we could leave as scheduled. That is not illegal, but apparently our friend knew our interpreter/facilitator and believed he would cause them trouble about it. I should mention that he kept telling me we could not get in and they would not help us etc. He also turned out to be corrupt as he was charging us fees that had never been part of the deal. As in now you're in Guatemala you have to pay me $50/week for you to take care of your own child while you are here. That kind of thing. He also wanted an outrageous $300 for escorting us to the embassy in a cab that we pay for. Needless to say he didn't get his $300.