Birth Certificate and Passport (Sept 22)

After landing back in Tegucigalpa

Passport Office

He also had his picture taken for the passport.

We waited in the small line of empty chairs upfront along the half, white wall.  

Wednesday after we landed in Tegucigalpa, our translator called to tell us that our lawyer would be picking up the birth certificate Thursday morning, the 22nd, and that we would be able to get the passport also. Little did we know what was waiting for us here back "home". Wed around lunch we were in Roatan being told that our connecting flight to Tegucigalpa was cancelled. We had checked out of our hotel, and returned the rental car in hopes of coming back. As Bob was returning the car everyone was eager to help me with our 3 suitcases and 3 kids standing there. One man took me, the kids, and our suitcases to the bus line. I managed to get us to the Taca Airlines counter where a lady in Spanish told me of the cancellation. I had no clue what she was saying so she brought over an English speaker. When Bob arrived in the terminal the same lady, who spoke only Spanish remember, told Bob in ENGLISH that our flight was cancelled and they would put us up for the night and the flight would leave Thursday around 1 pm. She could not give us an exact time and scratched his cell phone number on a 3x3 piece of paper. I was so irritated at this point all I could do was fake smile at this english speaker/Honduran in hopes that she would call us. Well I only envisioned the worst happening so we bought 1 way, direct flight tickets on CM airlines back to Tegucigalpa. They only had 4 seats left and my husband asked if the little one could ride on our lap. His size worked in our favor because after the CM employee looked Justin up and down he declared him small enough for our lap. They only charged us $50.00 for him, made up a price for the rest of us and we were on our way. So glad we chose to make this decision because the birth certificate and passport wouldn't of happened on Thursday.

We met Marta, our lawyer, at the passport office at 10:45 a.m. In the waiting room there were around 50 people waiting in chairs and another line of chairs for the elderly, expectant mothers, and families with small children. Luckily we qualified for the much shorter line. Our total time in the passport office was 45 minutes. After a guard summoned us we followed him back to a cubby in the corner where a lady told our lawyer she wasn't sure how to process Justin's passport because she had never filed adoption papers for a passport before. Our lawyer showed her which papers to enter and then in 10 minutes we were finished. We were told to return in 90 minutes so we went to KFC for lunch. Ninety minutes later passport in hand we were ecstatic! Onto the U.S. Embassy on Friday!!!!!!!!!!