Wednesday, May 19

It rained today- really rained- sheets of rain from about 10:30-present. Talk about a bummer. We just really stayed in the hotel as much as possible because it was pouring so hard. Tomorrow it is going to rain again. The only thing good about this is that when we went to a Thai food restaurant for dinner the humidity was not quite so unbearable. Dinner was good- it was a very nice place. We went out as a group which we don't do that often so it was fun. There are 7 families that are in our travel group. All of our babies are from the same orphanage and are within 2 months of each other. The only official thing that we did today was go to the police station to get Olivia's passport picture taken. It went very quickly with each family only taking about 2 mins each but the bus ride down there was about 20 mins and the bus ride home was about 40 mins. There is no drainage system here for this much rain. It was just standing on the road a couple of inches high in some places so the drive home was interesting. Last week there was a record amount of rain that fell here so they are tired of the rain as well. Miss Olivia is smiling and happy but she has been really pulling at her ear and her eyes have been getting red and blotchy so we took her to the doctor that is here in the hotel. She has an ear infection and a throat infection. We got 3 antibiotics and saw the doctor. We paid about $30 for all of that- wow- not bad. This explains why she got up twice during the night and did not want to be put down. We had our guide with us so that he could translate. I am so glad that we went with the adoption agency that we did so that we could have a guide with us the whole time. It saves a bunch of head aches. We are hoping that Olivia sleeps better tonight so that we can too!Love to all,
Patrick and Donna