So yesterday Matt and I went to Indy to get our fingerprints done with USCIS and while we were there we decided to go to the Indianapolis zoo and to an Ethiopian restaurant. First the appt., which BTW was at 10am Indiana time (an hour ahead of us), we had to leave home at 630am, boy were we tired. But the fingerprinting was quick and painless. Both of us figured we would be sitting in the USCIS office for 2 hours waiting, we waited for about 10 minutes and that was because we were 10 minutes early. So it was definately not bad at all. I had wanted to get a picture of us outside the building but didn't. I did find out that I have a very unique type of fingerprint on my index fingers. More unique than usual, the girl who took my fingerprints was excited about them, so of course I had to rub it in to Matt just how unique I am. He just said I was a big nerd. LOL. After our fingerprinting we went to the zoo. We had a good time, but I think it would have been better if it had been warmer and in the zoo's prime time. A lot of the animals were not avail. for showing and nothing was open. But we still had a great time just being together. I will download pics of the animals when I get a chance. After the zoo we went to an authentic Ethiopian restaurant and verdict is that we do not like the food. The atmosphere and the our waitress were great, we were even able to buy a couple of CD's of Ethiopian music, but the food was definately not for us. Atleast we can say that we tried it. Hopefully we will not have to eat too much of it when we are in country. After we ate we went home. It was a great day in all and I really enjoyed getting to spend time with Matt. He has been working really long hours for the past couple of months so we haven't been able to spend much time together so it was great to reconnect with him.
On to other adoption news; we should be getting our referral letter from DCFS in a couple of weeks. This is the letter that states that they approve our home study report. It's is the only thing preventing us from sending in our home study report to USCIS so that we can get our golden ticket (I171-H). Let's cross our fingers and toes and pray that it comes sooner rather than later. I am so ready to send in our dossier it is not even funny.
I will post a recipe tomorrow.
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Fingerprinting? Check! Yeah!!
So sorry you didn't like the Ethiopian food. We tried it in Dallas this summer and absolutely loved it. Even Lili liked it. What did you try?
It doesn't sound like you have to eat Ethiopian food at all while in country. If you stay at the Toukoul Guest House, most of the meals are American and Italian.
Anyway, really glad to hear you've checked another item off your list and I hope DCFS moves quickly and gets your approval letter done.
I'm not sure what we had it was a sampler platter. There was chicken, beef and lamb. It was too much like curry for us. I was not too keen to the injera either. But Matt assured me that that does not mean that we are not supposed to adopt from Ethiopia. LOL.
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