Before we could go to dinner, we had to check in with the Texas Secretary of State about our paperwork. The snowstorm last week in Texas delayed our paperwork, so we needed to know when it would be done and sent to us here. Fortunately, my brother works close to the SOS office and agreed to be our representative. After several phone calls and emails, my brother got the SOS to authenticate our document and send it that day. (Just so you know, this was no easy feat and took several hours to accomplish. He is my hero!) With the time difference between here and there, we started working on it about 5pm here and finished about 11pm. So we didn't get to go to dinner. Cliff and Vivian made our dinner (while I dealt with paperwork) - chicken. Again.
In the middle of the paperwork ordeal, we had a bit of an emotional breakdown on our side. There was a point that it looked like we could not get the paperwork here in time to save the adoption and that we would have to come home with no child. And we're all tired of being here just waiting and waiting. The stress and uncertainty got to us all. But we talked about it, prayed about it, and slowly things started to look up. By the end of the evening we had learned that the document was authenticated and waiting to be picked up by FedEx.
So we celebrated Cliff's birthday on Tuesday night with dinner at TGI Friday's. THAT was an experience! Haven't eaten in a restaurant with a smoking section in a LONG time. Our waitress spoke fairly good English, so we didn't have any problems there. Burgers and fries were good but salty. Cliff got beef fajitas that were actually a bit sweet and not much like Tex-Mex fajitas. Topped off the meal with a hot fudge sundae for the table. Dinner for 4 cost about $63.
Happy Birthday, Cliff!
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