update

We left all our winter clothes behind, so we’re thankful for the coin-op laundry, since we put our clothes on Wednesday and here we are still wearing them on Monday evening.  We did have clean socks and undies, thankfully, and were able to pull some hand-me-downs out of the full suitcase my sister’s family sent to the Nigerians in our luggage!  While that spins, here’s a quick update. 

We went through lots of irritating hoops to apply for visas online (the first step) and we made it to the embassy today and got confirmation on everything we will need (the second step).  Phyllis helped out so much, sending numerous attachments from Lagos yesterday.  After Heather searched our basement files without success, Karin went and waited in line today for copies of the boys’ birth certificates, which Silas scanned and emailed to us.  We got passport photos and money orders and should be all set to really apply in the morning.  We are praying that we’ll have visas in hand tomorrow, but at least by Friday so we can keep the initial reservation we made for Friday night.  Meanwhile, we still have an eye on the news in Kogi state.

It’s amazing how we keep discovering blessings.  We were comp’d the hotel room again today, and had no trouble taking the free shuttle to the airport, then the marta train to a bus that took us right to the embassy more than 20 miles away(same almost free and easy return – it took from 9-2). 

Hopefully we’ll know more tomorrow!