The judge approved our adoption but declined waiving the ten day waiting period a few hours ago. We were quite nervous walking in to court this morning given that we spent almost three hours preparing for court with our lawyer last night. I was quite intimidated by him as he told us to prepare a speech and to memorize the various requests to be made of the court. Although Dave won't admit it, he was a little nervous too. Our lawyer told us the last family's hearing lasted six hours. Fortunately, our hearing only lasted one hour. We were extremely well prepared. After the judge announced his verdict, our lawyer treated us to cigarettes and coffee! We stuck to pop and beer instead. We are returning home to wait out the ten business days. We will return to Canada on November 13 and journey back to Russia on November 20. On November 22nd we will take Tyler from the orphanage with a worker to have his passport photo taken. On November 23 we will pick up all the necessary documents and then take him from the orphanage for good. We are definitely counting down the days!
Here are some of Dave's comments for you to read ...
For those of you at Manulife I have found a bunch of jobs we can use for transferable skill analyses:
Esacalator Watcher - a person who sits all day long at the bottom of a 20 step escalator and watches it go all day from her booth. Sometimes she watches not one but two escalators and cleans the handrails.
Port-A-Potty Attendant - yes someone actually has the job of selling you a few pieces of toilet paper for your moment of need on the toilet. The bonus to this job she actually has an office -yep it's blue and has a door - it's a port a potty - ah the perks.
Leaf sweeper - really old babushkas are assigned to various parts of the city with a broom the size of paintbrush, dustpan and a box. We leave in the morning and they have moved about 20 feet in a 4 hour period.
Subway ticket puncher(s) - 2 yacking women who punch holes in your 30 cent subway ticket after all we would not want anyone ride for 30 cents less.
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