Preparation

Today was a busy day. We went out for a drive today to Moshi, the neighboring town about an hour and half drive from Arusha. Neither Uncle Topher nor I had seen the town and Mommy really likes it there. So, she took us for lunch and to see the town. She is right....it's really nice. It's very green with jacaranda lined streets everywhere and its a quieter town with less tourists, less upscale obnoxious hotels with upscale obnoxious tourist, less street children attracted by the tourists trying to annoy you into buying the second hand map of Boise Illinois that they are selling, less fast driving insanely obnoxious safari vehicles....just LESS.

The actual reason we were on the drive though, is that Mommy is considering buying some land here in my name so that I will have something special of my homeland, even after I have to move away. We're not totally sure, and it can be tricky to buy land, but we are scouting out possible locations to make some inquiries into. We found a very nice little spot between Arusha and Moshi, which has two stunning views and located smack between Mt. Meru and Mt. Kili. It's called Sanya Juu (juu means small hill in Swahili). We'll have to go out again on some weekends and look more....it's just in the idea stage at this point.

Then, tonight we had dinner with Brooke Montgomery. She is our adoption lawyer, in town because we have a court hearing tomorrow morning. We all met tonight so that Mommy and Brooke could discuss what is going to happen tomorrow morning and what we should expect etc. It all sounds a bit complicated and maybe a little scary, but Mommy keeps giving me hugs and kisses, so I know that no matter what it's all going to be ok. I'll leave it to the grown ups to sort out all the legal mumbo jumbo....and for now, I'll just keep singing and dancing and playing!