I have been so busy thinking about everything I still need to do that I have forgotten to blog about it. We have booked our flights for our trip. D will be going for a little over a week and then flying back home to be able to save vacation time and help out with the kids. (His step-mother is flying over to watch the kids for us, which is a HUGE relief for us!!) By the time everything is said and done, I am going to be sick of airplanes! In addition to 14 hour flight to Crescent Moon, Z and I will be flying to the states for 15 hours and then back to Germany for 9 and that doesn't even include all of our "local" travel inside of Crescent Moon!! The most frustrating thing for me was the lack of direct flights this time around. We paid quite a bit more to get a direct flight from Crescent Moon to the states, but the only other option was an overnight layover in India. No thanks!! Apparently, there were NO direct flights from the US to Germany, which there used to be an abundance of, so I'm not sure what changed but the only good part about that is that our layover is in Dublin, so I can "visit" Ireland, unofficially. The flights were both more expensive and less expensive than I thought. Most of the individual flights were pretty reasonable, but when put together they were quite a lot more than I was anticipating. I think needing the direct flight really hurt our budget there.
In other news, we have an appointment to apply for our visas on Monday at 9:30, so that's exciting! Of course, it means I don't have much time to get the rest of the information for the application. I swear the details required just to apply have blown my mind time and time again! We have to have booked flights, booked hotels, health insurance information, and complete contact information of the "inviting party" and an in-country contact. This is in addition to the obvious passport information, birthdates, etc. It feels a bit like the Spanish inquisition or being interrogated by Scotland Yard! I am hoping that the plus side is that applying will be a matter of handing them the forms and coming back on the day they say they will be ready.
Besides all of that, I still need to make lists for D's step-mom so she knows the daily routine and anything else she might need to know. I need to mail some more forms to our agency. We need to finish our wills and have them notarized along with a few other adoption-related forms that need notarized now. I would love to start packing, but I know it's still a bit early for that. (My brain is wanting to plan backwards, so it's hard not to just let myself do it and check it off the list) I need to make appointments in the states for Z to have her vision checked and get her passport. I actually tried to do the latter already, but they said I can't make that appointment until May 13th, so I will have to do it from Crescent Moon. Hopefully I can just make it online. And, don't tell anyone, but I filled out that application with blue ink and it said I was supposed to use black! ;-) I also need to come up with an itinerary for our family's vacation in July because come May, I won't have any time to do that. But all of that has to wait because DJ's birthday party is this Saturday and the house is still not clean enough and I need to make sure I have plenty of food. *sigh*
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