We're coming home!!!!

I called the Embassy this afternoon for an update on our case. The American officers were busy and one was going to call me back later this afternoon. About 15 minutes after I hung up we got a call from one of the Vietnamese women at the embassy telling us that our visa had been approved!

She asked if we could be at the embassy in the next 15 minutes for our 2nd interview (my answer was "Hell yeah!") and we were on our way. We met WC staff at the embassy, paid some money, and we were on our way.

The other families in our travel group are still waiting on their paperwork. Somehow, and we have no idea how, we went from being at least a day behind everyone to at least a day ahead. WC staff did tell us that (he thought) in January 2008 the embassy would switch to the 1 interview method, so all investigations are already completed by the time the families get here. That should eliminate most of the pain that we and the other families went through while we were waiting.

As we speak we're waiting on our travel agent to wake up and try to book us on an earlier flight. WC staff will get the visas tomorrow at 4:00 and we can leave anytime after that. We're hoping we can get on an early Friday flight, but worst case we'll be leaving Saturday night as planned.

We've decided to stay at our new hotel (Horison) for the duration. We can both finally breathe.

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers. We'll see everyone soon.

Dennis