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Hi,
I am travelling at the moment and am updating the journey with photos on my other blog.  Use the link to check out some of the photos.
Elizabeth

Dates

For those that love dates, I travelled a year to the calendar date from registering with my local agency.  It was a Thursday in 2011 and a Saturday this year due to the leap year, but still rather exciting.  Needless to say, I will honestly admit I have been like a dog with a bone over the last year!  Thank you to everybody for your support and encouragement. 

I also just realized updating things that my dossier didn't actually arrive here in my country until April 25.  So travel was less than a month later!   Wow!  There was no holding me back.  It'll hit when I get home and have no pay cheque for ten days of personal leave but this journey is everything to me and what else is a line of credit for!!!!

I am travelling at the moment and have updated my other blog with some photos.  Please use the link to see some photos on, "On the Road to Bringing My Daughter Home".  I will have to keep up with all of you when I get home. I am busy with group emails home and will try to keep the other blog up to date.  I will post more detailed entries on the other blog when I get home.  My emails and posts are my journal as I hate writing and find it easier to type.

I have so much to do and so little time to do it!

I have almost finished the goody bags for the orphanages.  I just need to get a few more stickers.  Thank you to my sister and a gal at her office for hitting the other Dollorama stores for me.  Here's a picture of one them.

Not a great photo of a wonderful little bag of goodies but made the bag for $20 including tax.  Each bag has 5 little mini-frisbees, 5 boomerangs, 3 sheets of stickers, a package of Canada pencils, the Canadian boomwhackers or bang sticks posted earlier, note pads (Disney princesses or Cars), crayons, 2 packages of sticky stretchy bugs, 2 packages of dinosaur glow-in-the-dark shaped bracelets, barrettes, Chinese skipping elastic, and a beach ball.  I only hope that I can get them all into the duffel bug I bought at MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op).  The bags added up but I think it is a nice little gift to leave with orphanage as a 'thank you' for letting me visit.





I spent a cool $230 at London Drugs tonight, like Longs for those in the USA, and will post more about that later.  This was the big non-prescription drug shop!!!  I need to go back Wednesday or Thursday with my prescriptions!!!   At least those I should be able to claim on my extended health.  The only debatable prescription is the one for malaria.   $50 of the $230 was for iron pills and another $24 for two disposable cameras ($12 each).  A big thank you to my fellow bloggers for your ideas here. It seems many of you have sent or left these cameras with your child's orphanage or foster home so they can take photos of the child in a familiar environment and with caregivers and friends.  This camera is then hopefully returned when the adoption is finalized.  Sometimes these are the only pictures pre-adoption that children and families have. 

My bank visit on Saturday showed up today but I think I miscalculated and didn't take out enough funds. Oh well, it's a good job I am working for three weeks in July.  I may be living on baked beans and toast soon!

I just realized . . .

I just realized that L and I will be travelling exactly a year from when I registered with my local agency.  I registered on May 19, 2011 and I fly on May 19, 2012.   I am just hoping there is a little one available for adoption in one of the orphanages.  I will be a walking medicine cabinet with all the prescriptions and over-the counter meds I am taking!  I think I will need to check two pieces of luggage.

  I don't like to get too personal, but I must have one of the world's most sensitive tummies!  I never know what will trigger and what won't, and what doesn't one time may do the next time.  I had a long talk with W tonight from "On My Again" and she suggested "Pearls".  A probiotic that doesn't need to be refrigerated.   The reviews on line are all extremely positive and my little, healthy supermarket down the street sells them.  I am going to buy some tomorrow and start taking them so I can see how I tolerate them. 

Getting Ready to Go

It has been a very busy week.  I feel like I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off.  I encourage to hop on over to my other blog, see the link in the top right hand corner, to see what I have been up to and what I still have to do.   A major accomplishment yesterday was booking the flights and now I need to focus on accommodation.  I see my GP for prescriptions for everything on Thursday and my lady at the bank to clean-out accounts on Saturday!

I am not sure I will be able to post from the hotel I am staying at but I hope so.  Like some of you have done, I may be able to update but not post any pictures. I will do that when I get back.