Well, again it's been a little while since I've posted. I get my hopes up that this process is coming to an end and every time it seems like we hit a bump in the road. The last time i posted we had traveled to New Orleans for the authorization letter for the passport. So this is where we are now. We mailed the authorization letter and she received it about a week later. She went and picked up the letter and found out that it had to be authenticated. She also found out that she had to go to the bank and pay for her passport appointment to get the date and time which she was told would be sometime in December. So she had an attorney authenticate the letter and after some research I found out she could pay an extra $20 to get an emergency appointment that would be sooner than December. So she goes to the bank gets the appointment set for Friday November 23 and we are all excited that we will finally have everything we need. So her appointment gets here, she travels an hour, shows up and has to wait in line behind about 100 other people. (I'm sure this was great fun with an almost 3 year old.) It's finally her turn and they tell her they cannot accept the letter from the attorney that she can only get it authenticated in Tegucigalpa which is the capital of Honduras and is about 4 hours away from where she is. So she calls us frustrated of course and we tell her to just to go back home so we can re-group and try to figure out what we are going to do. The hard part for me is that I'm trying to do all of this researching trying to figure things out from here. She doesn't know what to do or where to go and she gets conflicting information when she tries to ask questions there. She has no transportation so all of this traveling she does is by bus with a toddler at our expense. She tells us that she has never been to the capital and doesn't want to go alone so she has to find someone that can make the trip with her which just means more money for us, but at the same time I don't want her wondering around a city she doesn't know with Michell alone in the most dangerous country in the world.
So Tuesday she traveled with the baby and her brother to Tegucigalpa by bus which took 4 1/2 hours. They couldn't leave until 9:30 am because that was when the bus left so it was about 2 p.m. before she got to the place she needed to be. She was told she would have to go to the bank and pay for the letter and then they would get it ready for her. When she got back from the bank they told her they would have the letter ready for her to pick up at 5:00 p.m. Of course the last bus going back home leaves at 5:00 and they still have to take a taxi from the place they are once they pick up the letter to get back to the bus stop. By this time they are all tired, the baby is crying, and hungry because she hasn't really had a chance to feed her all day and she is getting sick. So they ended up having to spend the night. We called to check on them that evening and she said they found a hotel and the baby is already passed out. (It was 6:45 p.m.) I feel bad for all of them. I know how much work it is trying to do anything with a toddler especially one that isn't feeling well. When she got back home the next day she went back to the bank to pay for the new passport appointment. We now have a passport appointment scheduled for next Tuesday December 4th. I am praying that she has everything that she needs and that she finally gets the passport.
And so the journey continues...................
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