We Made It!

Hopefully no one is too upset with my paraphrasing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous quote. Although, I have to say, our euphoria at getting our passports back from the Department of Immigration with the Permanent Resident stamp in them felt quite uplifting and liberating!

Residents at last! Residents at last!
Thank God almighty, we're residents at last!

Two years and here we are. Wow!

Arriving At Belmopan for the big event
and Thanks to Doug - He Took All of the Photos

It took us a while to get organized - even before we started from Corozal. Oh, we got underway sharply at around 7:00 AM, like we'd planned (hoping to miss the many school buses since this was the first really big day of school).

Then we had to stop at their "guarantor's" shop up on the highway (essentially acting as their sponsor). Doug and Twyla had used his Belizean passport as the document on their Surety Bond form guaranteeing that he was a Belizean and that he would make sure they got plane tickets out of the country should they turn out to be deadbeats anytime in the next three years.