I'm speechless

I have to post the whole story about John running through the streets with 20 minutes notice to get us into the cab. I'll have to post another story about Mason, Lucy and I wandering the streets so John can have a quiet hotel room to work from. I'll have to write an entirely new blog to explain my feelings at knowing that as of 5 p.m. the Vietnamese government has given us Lucy forever.

They gave us 30minutes to get to the justice department. It took 15 minutes to sign the papers. No words were spoken. Someone had to tell us we were finished. Lucy is now, according to Vietnam, our daughter.

We will sprint through the next 3 days; passport request, Department of State interview, Medical interview. Then we pack, and fly to Hanoi. If the State Department is merciful, we will have our Visa/Exit interviw on Monday morning, we will pick up Lucy's Visa on Monday afternoon, and we will board the plane for home on Monday night.

Your faith and prayers have brought us this far. We are speechless with gratitude. Our hearts are full. Lucy is never again to be called an orphan. She is now a daughter (sweetly said by John)