Our first speed bump

5:00 p.m. here and we are back at GSF. We went to court today at 9:00 a.m. and was really hoping for a quick ruling so that we could speed this adoption along, BUT that would not be the path that the Renslow’s would take today. As it turns out, custody for Mary was given over to Carolyn Jacobsen specifically and not to Good Shepherds Fold in general – a fact our attorney was well aware of, but neglected to give specific instructions for Carolyn to be in attendance. He assumed that Carolyn would be there at the hearing, but never told her that she had to be. Therefore, the judge wanted to know where the legal guardian was (this Carolyn person). She was two hours away that’s where she was! So, the judge was visibly frustrated with our attorney, but our attorney was able to persuade the judge to see us again on Monday at 9:00 a.m. instead of Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. I totally understand where the judge is coming from and do not blame him at all. Our lawyer says that the rules keep changing and you never know what they are going to ask for. So, that means that we are traveling back to Kampala on Saturday to “the surgery” (hospital) to get Zuri checked out (this is part of the process) and then back again on Monday. Furthermore, we talked to the US Embassy and the person there (Nathan) was very little help over the phone and was completely swamped. He said that it would be very unlikely to speed things up as they are very busy. So, we may have decisions to make as to how long certain people stay and such – so…we wait again. On a positive note, we did get Zuri’s passport pictures made and they are the cutest pictures you could possibly imagine.