Trip 3 Day 3

Good news today. Leo convinced the director at the passport agency to go ahead and process Konner's passport the old way. He was apparently pretty persistent and they knew he wasn't going to go away until they said ok. He informed them of the fact that we had already made three trips here and this law had changed during the middle of our process, and the baby home is now taking care of our child and would have to continue doing so until we get the passport, so it is also an added burden to them. They agreed and told him this would be the last time this was done and all passports in the future would be processed according to the new law. The new passport have to be issued out of Moscow, so all future adoptions will be a four trip process since you can't apply for the passport until you have all the documents from the office of Vital Statistics. We did have to sign a letter saying that we wouldn't hold them responsible if the Embassy in Moscow doesn't accept this old style passport. If all goes as planned we should be able to pick up his passport as scheduled on Friday, if they have it finished, if not we would have to wait until Tuesday since Monday is a holiday. Worst case scenario is that we have to stay a few extra days and get home later than originally planned.



We are going to go pick Konner up from the orphanage in the morning and bring him back to our hotel for the day! We are looking forward to some one on one time with him since there is always someone walking through the playroom when we are visiting with him, and he seems to think when one of the caregivers comes in that he is supposed to go with them.