We made it to Uganda!

I am going to try to be brief, however there is no way to do that! So many things have happened in the past few days. We boarded a plane for Uganda on Wed, May 14 and after flying to NYC, Amsterdam, and Rwanda...we finally touched down in Entebbe, Uganda. The traveling was long but not too bad. The first flight to NYC was the worst...I had so many breakdowns I couldn't even count them. All for different reasons. I missed my boys...I was fearful but I realized on the plane when looking over affidavits for court, that June 2012 was when Ellie's mom passed and that was the same month we said "YES" to starting our adoption. I got so emotional about this, thinking that God planted that desire in my heart that month, it was His way of promising that in HIS time, she would have another mama. To think I almost gave up on that calling made me beyond emotional. To see His plan, all along was perfect but yet I had to doubt and demand and become impatient and FINALLY learn to let it go to Him, finally give up and know if it's His Will, it will be. And to be on a plane headed to meet our daughter... I finally felt like I understood the WHYS of this long process. If I would have swooped over with no obstacles, I would not have not learned all I have during this long process.

When we touched the ground in Entebbe, our driver, Francis..who I would learn soon would be such a Godsend to us, picked us up and away we drove to Kampala. We got to our hotel around 11:30 pm and had our first Ugandan meal of fried fish and chips. We figured that was safe:) On the way to the hotel, the streets were full of "Boda Bodas" motorcycles...that drive very fast and zip in and out of cars like crazy. Francis told us, unless we want to go back home missing a limb, or we have an appt.  with death...we better stick with a car in Kampala. In Jinja, Boda Bodas are a bit more forgiving bc traffic isn't as bad. The drive was about an hour, there were people everywhere, party over here, market over there...babies, mothers, young, old were out on the streets just walking and hanging out. I asked what these people do all night, he said they have markets open that they sell to people at night, and of course trouble always brews at night as well!

When we got back to the room, we were exhausted, so we slept like crazy. Francis was set to pick us up Friday am at 9:15 because we had an appt with our attorney Rebecca at 10. He called us at 9:15 to tell us he was waiting, and guess what...we were still sleeping! We both slept so soundly we didn't even wake up once! I was counting on my early bird husband to wake up as always, but since Uganda time is 9 hours ahead, his clock was off as well. So we rushed to get ready and ended up only being a few minutes late, which in Uganda is no big deal, because everyone is usually late on "African time" as they call it. 

So we rushed up flight after flight of stairs to finally reach Rebeccas floor. There sat Rebecca, a young looking lady, who I expected to be older from all the experience I had heard she has in Family Adoption law. She was very sweet and as I scanned her office, I saw a purse sitting on the floor, with a soiled baby blanket sitting in it...and I knew she must be here....