Subj : Re: Hello to all the Dad's out there! To : All From : Dotoran Date : Sat Nov 23 2019 19:25:29 Another 2 years passed, and against my utterances about NEVER wanting to have to go through all that paperwork, wait time, stress, and expenitures, as Britney Spears was fond of saying, Oops, we did it again! ;-) Now having the start of a young family already, we wanted to make especially sure any other adoptions would work to our favor. We located another agency that was doing something interesting. They had a large group of children from Bogota, Colombia, who would be traveling to the US to stay for an almost 3 week period of time. They were told it was just a trip to getaway from their orphanges, etc, although we think the older children knew better. We located two more girls, not biologically related, both 12 going on 13. They gave us an interpreter to use at the airport, so we could have a short dialog before taking them home. Neither my wife or I had taken any Spanish in our schoolings, so it was very similar to the Russian endeavor in the communication department, but those were the coolest three weeks of our lives. The girls then had to return to Colombia, hoping to see us come there and bring them home as ours, but it would be TEN MONTHS before we made that trip. We actually stayed in Colombia for 7 weeks (Mother's Day to 2 weeks after Father's Day). We did so much during that time, making sure the girls could see as much of their home country as they could before becoming US citizens. --- CNet/5 * Origin: Central Ontario Remote CNet (1:249/307.1) .