One Week and Counting

My children are wonderful. After watching most of their belongings walk out the door last week and sorting through the rest of their stuff to pack into suitcases, they are pretty much depleted of everything. Today I see their fuses short, having nothing to do and “I’m bored!” has echoed in our empty house more than once already.

So I sent them down the hall to revive a game we started many years ago – La Búsqueda de Inigo Montoya is an adventure, clue-seeking game, complete with keys, Ecuerdos (money) and shubas (capes). Last time we played my oldest was eight, so I was surprised that she was willing to play. Of course she wanted me to set it up, but I wanted to see how well they did without me. So far, so good; I haven’t heard a complaint for thirty minutes.

Yesterday we picked up our Ecuadorian visas, no problem – of course, it was the third time we visited the office. No paperwork can be done in under three visits to any office in Argentina – I would say most Latin American countries, but having never lived anywhere else extensively, I’ll hold off. While we were at the office we asked how to process more paperwork for our shipping company to begin the process of shipping. So our visa processing helper rattled off an official document verbally as I struggled to write it all down. I got about 5% of what she said, and she left us to attend to someone else.

Bryon and I wrote our own, not-quite-official-sounding document, and he headed back down there today to begin the process of making it sound better, and hopefully she will be more helpful today than she was yesterday. He went prepared, taking a flash drive with him, and plans to edit and re-edit and not return home until he has the official stamp and seal to ship our belongings! Good luck, Bryon!