Well, it is official! I'm leaving on a jet plane in just 17 short days!
I will fly out of Vancouver on August 31st, overnight in Montreal and then fly straight to Port-au-Prince from Montreal with Air Canada. This will be the first time flying Air Canada into Haiti and I'm kind of excited about having only one stop from Vancouver to Haiti! When I fly through Florida it is often 2 stops and occasionally 3 stops which just lengthens the trip! And this will be my first time flying this far east in Canada! (not that I'm going to see a whole lot other than the airport!)
And then on Sept 8th (Just one short week later) I head back to Montreal with my husband!!!!! We have a 17 hour overnight layover in Montreal before heading home to BC, so I'm hoping we can connect with Ronel's cousins who moved to the Montreal area last summer. We land at the Vancouver Airport at 5pm on the 9th -- my brother has informed me that there will be a welcoming committee so you are all more than welcome to stop by and welcome Ronel to BC!
As you can see at the top of the blog - I've added a countdown to Ronel's arrival I can't believe that in just over 3 weeks, I will have my husband home with me! It has been such a long wait and I can't believe the end is so close!
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
drumroll please......
I am very happy to let you all know that as of today - Friday August 7th, Ronel has his permanent resident visa in his hands!!!
I will be looking into flights over the weekend to fly down to Haiti the end of August and help his pack up and say goodbye and then we will leave Haiti TOGETHER and come HOME to BC!!!(probably the 7th of Sept)
I know many of you have been praying for us over the past 3 years and we appreciate ALL your prayers! This has been a long process and it finally has an end in sight!
I'll try to make sure I keep the blog up to date with all the news and such and will definitely post photos of our trip home and Ronel landing on Canadian soil!
Have a fantastic weekend - I know I'm going to!
I will be looking into flights over the weekend to fly down to Haiti the end of August and help his pack up and say goodbye and then we will leave Haiti TOGETHER and come HOME to BC!!!(probably the 7th of Sept)
I know many of you have been praying for us over the past 3 years and we appreciate ALL your prayers! This has been a long process and it finally has an end in sight!
I'll try to make sure I keep the blog up to date with all the news and such and will definitely post photos of our trip home and Ronel landing on Canadian soil!
Have a fantastic weekend - I know I'm going to!
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
THERE HAS BEEN A DECISION!!!
This is what I saw when I logged into the CIC Canada website this evening at 10:42pm...
A decision has been made on RONEL CLEDOMIN's application. The office will contact RONEL CLEDOMIN concerning this decision.
I'm quite speechless! I ran upstairs to tell Terri (one of my roommates), called my mom & called Ronel. My heart is racing a thousand beats per minute and Friday afternoon is SO VERY FAR AWAY! Ronel goes to the embassy on Friday morning to pick up his passport and I am now very much praying that it has his permanent resident visa inside of it! I can't believe that the day has finally arrived where the status page actually reads that a decision has been made! At this moment we don't actually know what the decision is, just that one has been made but I can think of why they would have wanted his passport if the decision was no!?! I now have to start looking at airline tickets and figuring out how I'm going to swing getting me down there and also Ronel back up here (we have to fly Air Canada from PAP to Montreal otherwise we have to apply for a transit visa for Ronel to travel through the US) I know that Air Canada is more expensive and only flies out of Haiti once a week. Please be praying that I can afford to fly down to Haiti to help Ronel pack up all his belongings (and some of mine that I'd left behind) and say good bye to family and friends. I don't know when we will be back in Haiti so it is important to me to be there to say goodbye and I don't want to miss Ronel's first plane ride and his entry into Canada!
Your prayers over the next three days as I wait to hear about Ronel's trip to the embassy would be much appreciated! They are doing to be very long days!!
Hope to be posting soon!!!
A decision has been made on RONEL CLEDOMIN's application. The office will contact RONEL CLEDOMIN concerning this decision.
I'm quite speechless! I ran upstairs to tell Terri (one of my roommates), called my mom & called Ronel. My heart is racing a thousand beats per minute and Friday afternoon is SO VERY FAR AWAY! Ronel goes to the embassy on Friday morning to pick up his passport and I am now very much praying that it has his permanent resident visa inside of it! I can't believe that the day has finally arrived where the status page actually reads that a decision has been made! At this moment we don't actually know what the decision is, just that one has been made but I can think of why they would have wanted his passport if the decision was no!?! I now have to start looking at airline tickets and figuring out how I'm going to swing getting me down there and also Ronel back up here (we have to fly Air Canada from PAP to Montreal otherwise we have to apply for a transit visa for Ronel to travel through the US) I know that Air Canada is more expensive and only flies out of Haiti once a week. Please be praying that I can afford to fly down to Haiti to help Ronel pack up all his belongings (and some of mine that I'd left behind) and say good bye to family and friends. I don't know when we will be back in Haiti so it is important to me to be there to say goodbye and I don't want to miss Ronel's first plane ride and his entry into Canada!
Your prayers over the next three days as I wait to hear about Ronel's trip to the embassy would be much appreciated! They are doing to be very long days!!
Hope to be posting soon!!!
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