What a difference a day can make!

Still don't have the final letter from the Government of Rwanda, but we experienced some increadible God moments today.

The morning started out with a visit to the translator to pick up the new translations. This turned out to be wonderful because there was much more detail about Epimaque in the new transalations than the previous versions. We now know not only the Sector of the Kigali that he was abondoned in, but the very house where he was abandoned! Amazing.

We also went to the Canadian Embassy in Kigali, where God arranged an incredible meeting with a guy who just 'HAPPENED' to be here from the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi, and he just 'HAPPENED' to be here to work with the Rwandan government to speed things along with Canadian adoptions and he just 'HAPPENED' to be meeting with the Minister that needs to sign the letter we need, and just 'HAPPENED' to be going to the Home of Hope orphange from where we are adopting, and his meeting just 'HAPPENED' to be delayed so he was available to talk to us. and he just 'HAPPENED' to have our file along from Nairobi that an assistant gave him as he was walking out the door before coming to Kigali! It was incredible!

It looks like we might be able to stay in Kigali for the whole process - even the visa! This would be fantastic!

It was a great day today!

We also got to go to Hotel Des Mille Colline - the place where the movie Hotel Rwanda was shot (and the story occurred). Our lawyer here (who is great) had a meeting here, so we needed to come, but it was quite powerful. (Watch the movie if you haven't seen it yet!) And then off to the Genocide Memorial with our drive Innocent. His wife's family was killed in the Genocide and she had to run and flee during that time. It was very powerful to be there with him.

Well, must go have some ice cream - yes, there IS some in Rwanda!

-dale