End of the [my] World pt.1

So last week Tuesday the agency called us to let us know that on the 30th of the month we might have a court date.  Then 2 days later they called us on Thursday and told us not to count on it, and to hope the 2nd week of December we might be able to get a date.  Now today they just called up and told us that we have to fly on on Monday because we got our appointment again on the 30th. 

WHAT!!!

So most couples get 2.5-4 weeks and we get 6 days, and most of America is going to be shut down this Wed thru Sun.  We are paying tons of money in rushes to get things done in time.   We have to pay almost 1k just to get our visa's processed in time, a lot of paperwork is flying all over the place.

Its funny.  Starting on Saturday I just started praying everyday that God would shake that judge up and let us have the 30th.  I should have had more faith and started packing earlier!

So our travel will look like this.  Leave Chicago in the morning, layover in NY, fly out around suppertime and then fly for about 15 hours to moscow.  Book it to the hotel for 8 hours of rest, go take a medical exam, hitch a ride to the train station, take an overnight 12 hour ride to the orphanage, go straight to court, go to hotel and sleep, and then take a train ride back to Moscow.  Then we hang around for about 5-10 days and wait for processing, then we head home.

That is crazy!  I am worried about the Russian medical exam.  We have to pay them $1200 for each of us, they take my wife and I into a room together with both a male and female doctor.  Apparently they strip us down naked for about an hour and tons of people walk in and out of the room poking and proding us.  I have a feeling that they are just trying to humiliate us.  I am not comfortable with the whole idea, but they know you have to submit or you can't adopt.

I hate to be humiliated but apparently, I have to suck it up.

So everyone keep praying, we hare heading out Monday.