What next? Modeling?....

So here is a funny story. After breakfast this morning we came back to the room to get our papers inorder for the Embassy. The phone rings and it was one of the girls down at the front desk. She asked me if Paul, Sujina and I would come down to have our photos made for the Hotel and we would get a free lunch. She told us to be down there at 11am. Meanwhile Paul and Clay were supposed to be going to Children' s Home to get our last peices of paperwork and check on some dates.  

Well 11am came and went and Paul had not left yet either. Sujina and I went down to the lobby to meet the lady and she told us it would be around 12:30. We told her we had to be a the Embassy at 1:30pm for our appointment.  Raja Kumar finally came and brought all the papers we needed, so we were ready for the Embassy. At around 12:45 the lady at the front desk said they were ready, and she took us back up to the 3rd floor to a room that was very lovely and very large. 
The hotel was shooting a peice for their new broshures and they had asked us to be their models. They asked us to sit on the couch with Sujina. They didn't direct us as to how to sit, just told us to be still.
The took about 10 shoots an dthen said we were done. As we were leaving the lady asked us when we were coming back from the Embassy. We told her about an hour or so we weren't sure. They said "would you come back for the bedroom shot?" I had to giggle, but we said yes.  Did I need to bring my jammies?

We then went straight to the Embassy, we were all there. Elizabeth, Clay and Diptee, Dan, Lalaine, Sandha and Zachary, Radha and Pratistha and us. There were two other families as well, one we knew from the hotel and a new family from California.
We were all a little stressed. We wanted to be sure all of our paperwork was in order and that we had all of our photos we needed etc. We were supposed to by for the visa, we had travellers checks, you either pay in cash or Rupees. We didn't know this.
Finally they called us up to the window and told us we had all of our paperwork and they would call us on Wed to set up an appointment. So we will probably have an appointment on Thursday or Friday. It takes 24-72 hours to get the visa, so if we have our appointment on Thursday/Friday and we get through with no mishaps we will have our visa by Wed of next week when our flight home is! That is pushing it a bit I think.

So Paul ran out to the bank to change the travelers checks to cash and went back to the Embassy and paid.

When he came back to the hotel we had to finish our modeling shoot! We went back to the fancy room and in to the bedroom. They turned on the TV, put some magazines and the newspaper on the bedstand. We sat on the side of the bed and held Sujina. She really hammed it up for them, and I think they got some good shots. At least of her.

So tomorrow night we get a free dinner! Yeah!

Tomorrow is a holiday so we will just be hanging out. Tonight we are all getting together for dinner. Elizbeth sit it up with the banquet people, we have our own room and yummy food. Should be a good time. I think there will be some drinking of parents that need to relieve some stress.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but it will be one day closer to coming home.