Today was a very special day. We had our US Consulate appointment and took an oath on Caleb's behalf so that he would become a US Citizen as soon as we step foot on US soil. It was a very simple oath, but I could hardly keep tears from streaming down my face as we repeated the words. After we took the oath, they called us up one by one to look at all of our documents. I had a moment of panic because one of our documents was not completely filled out and they would not accept it because it had already been notarized before we left the States. Fortunately, it was one that we could redo at the consulate, it just took a little bit longer. Come to find out, all of the families from America World had to redo the same document. I think it was just a miscommunication between our US Travel Coordinator and our Chinese Guide. It's all fixed now and we are completely finished with all appointments and paperwork. We weren't allowed to take a camera into the consulate, so we just took a picture of the sign outside.
Lily, our guide, will pick us up at the hotel tomorrow afternoon at about 2:45 and we will head back to the consulate to pick up Caleb's Visa and then we head strait to Hong Kong. So, now we have free time until we have to check out of the hotel tomorrow at 1:45. We will probably visit the pool one last time and do some last minute shopping. Then we'll pack tonight and tomorrow morning. We are so looking forward to going home!!
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