Washington DC

So we received our letter from the Bolivian Branch on Thursday night. About 6 hours before we left to go to Washington DC. A brother in our congregation and his wife checked our mail everyday for us and it finally came. They sent us a scanned copy of it since mailing it to us would be useless. So the letter did finally come. We were so relived. Then we left at 1am on Friday. It took us 6 hours to get to Washington D.C. We drove to the US Authentications office and were in and out in about 15 minutes. Then we went to the Bolivian Consulate. It was so tiny. It was in this rinky dink little place next to a laundry mat. We brought them all our paperwork and they hand us 4 deposit slips. They tell us to go to the nearest Bank of America and deposit $43 4 different times into their account, so that they can have the receipts to tape to the back of the authenticated letters. So off we were walking around D.C looking for a Bank of America. There was one about 4 blocks away thank goodness. Then it was back to the Consulate. Then we give them all our paperwork and they tell us to sit down. So we wait a few minutes then the gentleman brings our paperwork back to us and says it's all done. We ask him "Where is our passports and other paperwork?" He walks back and comes back to ask us to follow him. Then we get to the back and have to explain to them what we are doing. Which we told them at the beginning. :) Oh I love dealing with the Bolivian Consulate. Finally they figured it out and told us they have to email some paperwork to the Bolivian Government and we should have our passports and all by Friday. Patience, patience, and more patience. Well after that we went to our hotel and changed and went back to D.C to look at some museums. We went to the National Air and Space Museum, the Capital, and other smaller museums. Then we found a restaurant to eat at and went back to our hotel. On Saturday we went to the Holocaust museum. It was really good to see what we did. It really made you realize how much power one person can have and that it could happen again. I am so proud of the good witness the Jehovah's Witnesses gave in the concentration camps. They had a Bible that one of the Witnesses had there. I was so proud that they were the only ones given the chance to sign a document saying they renounced their faith and they did not. I hope I have strong faith like that. It also impressed on me how much Jehovah must have helped them. Then we went to the National Museum of Natural History. After we saw the Washington Monument and the White House. Then we headed back to the hotel to change and find a restaurant. We found this really cool restaurant in D.C. It was called the Little Ethiopian Restaurant. The food was super good and you ate with your hands which I liked. We had a bottle of Ethiopian Honey Wine too which was super good. Then that was it off to bed. :) Today we woke up around 9 had breakfast and drove home. 8 hours not to bad. Now to unpack and start downsizing...again. Check out our picture link in the previous post for pics.