Mom and I just returned from Halifax yesterday. The curling was great!! I wished that we could have stayed up there for the rest of the week to watch the finals this coming Sunday but Mom had to return to work. We stayed at the same hotel as all of the curlers which was fun and we got to meet two of the players on our favorite team - team Newfoundland and Labrador. The weather was beautiful and we watched around 10 hours of curling for 4 days straight. Now how can you beat that??
We met with our social worker yesterday and she updated our homestudy. She told us that it should be written up by early next week. Our medicals are both booked for tomorrow and our criminal checks should come in anytime now. Our social worker has already contacted 3 of our 6 references so we are well on our way. Once everything is completed next week, it will be reviewed by the three levels of government so it can be approved. This part of the process can take up to three months as each person gets 1 month to review our update. This seems a little crazy to me so I plan on calling each person every few days until they have reviewed our update. I'm hoping that then it won't take the full three months to be approved.
There have not been any new referrals lately which is kind of discouraging but hoping there is a big batch right around the corner. Here are a few pictures of our curling getaway.
This is Brad Gushue one of my favorite curlers. His team won gold in the Torino Olympics in 2006.
Walking along the harbour front in Halifax.
On the adoption front, I called the lady who is the next one who has to approve our update. She is not in the office for the next week so it looks like it will be a little while before she even gets to look at our update. Too bad but I'm pretty used to waiting by now. 
