Bad news from Bogota

We got Samuel's results  and he needs to have a chest x-ray tomorrow.  This means we can't get his Visa until Monday afternoon and travel on Tuesday.  This is very disappointong because we were really hoping to see Amelia and Dalton Saturday.  We miss them so much and I know they are sad that they can't see us until Tuesday.  I wish we could have had them here with us this past week in Bogota.  The hardest part is being away from them for so long.

Samuel also had a doctor's apt today and we waited an hour for it, but atleast he took a nap.  The doctor was very nice and he said he learned English when he was a foreign exchange student in Sedalia, Missouri 20 years ago, what a small word!  He thanked Jeff and I for adopting Samuel and said he was very emotional seeing families like us.  We assured him we were blessed to have Samuel as our son!  He seemed surprised we had 2 other children too.  Samuel was so good partly because he was sleepy from just waking up.    After that we had to wait another 30 minutes for shots, poor Samuel had a shot in each arm.  It was sore at first, but thankfully we had children's tylenol to give him and he's fine now.

He's just relaxing now and watching Mickey Mouse.  He is such a good little boy, we've been on the go apt after apt this week, including one this morning we didn't know about until 10 minutes before David came to pick up around 9am, and he has been so good!
We got to the dr. today around 2:30pm and didn't leave until 5:30pm!  The only time he cried was for the 2 shots and it was brief.

The French family is very friendly, but it is challenging to communicate since we know about as much French as they do English.  Jeff is from Northern Maine so he grew up around some French speaking people, so he does okay.  It has been interesting being around  Spanish, French and English this week.  It's amazing to see Lucia, her son David and niece Leena speak all 3 languages!   Lucia the first day kept speaking to us in French...lol.  Everyone is very nice and I'm working on my Spanish with some of the staff that speak no English at all, but I think it's good for me to practice.

Jeff made his daily trip to the atm, we have to pay for just about everything in pesos here!  Jeff thinks we've spent around $200 on transaction fees alone!   I know that's crazy, but we had to even pay our hotel fee here in pesos.  Another reason it would have been better to leave Saturday.   And one more reason to not want to stay longer, Casa Lanthana is COLD!  Bogota does not get as cold as St. Louis, but it is cool this time of year, especially in the mornings and evenings.  Since they do not have a heater and I prefer being warm I'm thinking of buying a very warm sweater tomorrow, the ones I packed are to thin to keep  me warm.  Jeff on the other hand is comfortable in his t-shirt...lol.