I Hate Waiting!

Well, what we do know is that our G&R will not be the week of the 17th as we were originally hoping for.  We have been given a new estimate of September 3-5th, however, that is not confirmed yet.  So we are continuing to wait.  Our paperwork is moving forward though.  In the province it has two places to go - The People's Committee and The Justice Department (though I am not sure the order).  Our paperwork is through one of them and is now waiting on the other.  It seems that in some provinces this is done together or simultaneously, but not in DaNang.  So it has been estimated the week of September 1st, but the 2nd is a holiday in Vietnam so basically everything will be closed on the 1st and 2nd.  We are thinking of booking travel anytime though and then just changing the ticket dates if necessary.   When we were waiting for the go ahead on the week of the 17th, we kept checking flights every night and were watching them skyrocket in price as the dates got closer.  So we think it might be cheaper to buy them ahead of time and just pay the re-booking fee if we need to change them.

We are hoping to get enough advance notice of the G&R to spend a few days in Hong Kong en route to Vietnam.  We are also hoping to be in DaNang a few days early and get in some orphanage visits prior to the G&R.  We have now been told that is fine but I hope the weekend and the public holiday on the 2nd doesn't interfere with planning visits. 

For anyone interested in the details, we did get our passports back from the Vietnamese Embassy.  Erwin and I were issued 3 month, single entry tourist visas and Nathanh was issued a 6 month visa waiver, multiple entries.

So really that was a lot of words to say not much has changed around here and still waiting.  Hopefully more exciting news in my next post.