Well, tomorrow is Henock's court date in Ethiopia. If all goes well (and we hope it does), I should get a call in the morning at work that the court process is complete. We talked to Kurt (our adoption consultant) tonight and he is optimistic that we will travel 4 weeks after the court date is complete. That means we're likely looking at traveling in mid-June sometime.
Once the court process is complete, Henock will be able to get his birth certificate and passport. All that will be complete by the time we arrive in Ethiopia. Incidentally, we discovered that, following in Ethiopian tradition, Henock's birth certificate will read "Henock Benjamin McKinney". How cool!! Ethiopians typically take their father's name as their last name. We do plan on changing his name once we're back in the U.S., but this will be his "official" name for a little while at least.
In our conversation with Kurt, we were able to find out a lot about the travel and we got answers to many of our questions. And we had a ton of questions!! We both feel more comfortable with everything now that we know what the next steps are. It's nice to finally be talking about travel. It seems like this has been a long time coming.
We'll let you all know how tomorrow goes!
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