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Last Day With Allysen

Today was our last day with Allysen. It was sad to tell her bye. I think she had finally gotten to where she actually enjoyed our visits. The playground had been sprayed for bugs so we had to stay off of it today. So we took her for a short walk along the driveway and then went upstairs to a room to finish our visit. I missed being able to take her on the playground. We played with her and rocked her some and then it was time to say bye. I wonder if she will miss us coming?

Then it was time to leave and go back to the Capitol city. It took most of the afternoon and evening to get here. We are back in the same hotel we were in when we first arrived. Next, we go to Bella’s village. We will be there until Friday afternoon and then travel back here again to leave for home. Here are a few pictures from today.

BACK IN THE CAPITOL

Day Four With Allysen

So today we took Allysen to get her visa picture taken. She really enjoyed the ride and kept turning to look out one window then the other one. They had a hard time getting her picture done as she would not hold her head up. Finally our interpreter had to hold her head up so they could get it. Because his hand was in the picture we had to wait a little over an hour so they could remove his hand from the pic. We walked to a little park and sat there while we waited.

After we picked up the pictures we went back to the orphanage and played with Allysen. She was so tired that we finally ended up just holding her and walking her around. She seemed pretty alert today and even let the social hold her up in a standing position while we were in the park. — well, she really fought standing but finally did for a couple of minutes. As long as someone is holding her up, she will put weight on her legs. But, she tires very quickly and will then drop her head down and pretty much give up. The social worker also sat her on the bench for me to get some pictures and she sat fairly well.

She really did seem to like the trip out today and seemed to feel so much better than she did yesterday. She does have a little cold and maybe that makes her feel kind of bad. Tomorrow is our last visit with her so I hope she is feeling well.

We will leave this city tomorrow and go back to the capitol city. Then we travel to Bella’s region. Her orphanage is in a very small village and there is not even a hotel there so we will be staying in a different town instead of her village. We were told that we may not have Internet, so I’m not sure if we will be able to post about Bella. I am hoping that we will be able to. I am posting some pictures of Allysen in the park today. She really did enjoy getting out and riding in the car– it was so good to see her interested in everything.