Planning a visit

I am so excited. My friend Peggy got her passport a couple of weeks ago so we can now go visit little Evvy. She and her husband sat down and went over their family calendar to figure out when a good time would be for us to go to Guatemala. Peggy's husband works as a nursing supervisor on an overnight shift several nights a week so we have to really look at his schedule so that he can be on a day schedule to stay home with their 3 children. So we found a long weekend in October that will work.

We are tentatively planning to leave on October 19 (Thursday) and return on October 24 (Tuesday). We just looked at the flights that are available and we can leave at 4pm (to allow Tom time to sleep before the kids come home from school) and get to Guate at 9pm. We then would take Friday to sightsee. Then either Friday evening or Saturday morning we would have Evvy brought to the hotel where we would keep her until Monday afternoon/evening. We would then leave on Tuesday 12:30 which would allow a little time to shop some more if we needed to and then be home that night by 8pm.

I think the times are going to work out really well as I will only have to take 1/2 day off work on Thursday and then take Friday, Monday and Tuesday off. With any luck they will only charge me 3 days comp/vacation time at work. I have almost earned 2 comp days so I would only have to use 1 vacation day.

I am really excited. Of course the pessimistic side of my brain says, "with your luck your case will really move fast and she will be out of PGN before you travel." If this were to happen, we would lose the benefit of getting the IR-3 visa which saves readoption and additional paperwork when she comes home. If she comes home on an IR3 she is an automatic citizen instead of a "permanent resident."

Anyway, I will keep the blog updaed as we get our travel plans solidified.

SO EXCITED!
Susan