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I visited our son four times during the long wait last year. Each time, we arrived around lunch of one day and went back to his foster family around dinner of the next day. Our agency only allows for an overnight visit. Be sure to ask your agency what their parameters are for visiting. We are also asked not to leave La Casa Grande (the hotel) while the child was there with me. I just soaked up every moment with him and tried to capture as much on film and video as possible. Take a tripod so you can video without distraction of the camera and just get a more natural video of the playing/moments with foster family/etc...
I did always spend at least one more day traveling. I went to Antigua several times, did a tour of Guat. City which included a stop at the birthing center where our son was born and the area where his birthmom lived, and went to Chichi to the Sunday market. These are memories of our son's birthcountry I cannot wait to share with him.
Realize it is hard to leave but you leave with so much more than you came with each and every time! I would not change the trips for the world.
Sonya, mom to Marty
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