Passport!

We have to admit that Monday & Tuesday are a blur already...We were given some incorrect info about paperwork needed by the passport office here (consider your worst DMV experience ever - and it might match up). Basically it came to needing a signed original of the Minister's adoption approval, but she was in a meeting with another Minister. During that time, the notarization office (our worst enemy) had closed - so there wouldn't be a copy of the adoption approval left for us. After 3 trips driving back and forth to the passport office, the Minister finished her meeting. She was EXTREMELY gracious, signed three originals for us to avoid notarizations and then invited us to stay and talk for almost 25 minutes! This is a VERY busy woman and we felt so honored to talk candidly about the adoption process in Rwanda and our personal experience. In the end she asked us to act as ambassadors for adoptions in Rwanda...to try to create an email network of children so that her office could send updated information and eventually create a post-adoptive survey system! WOW!!!