Fingerprints! and the unrelated adventure thereafter

We got our fingerprints today! It went fine without incident, except Brent got his pocketknife taken away before the metal detector. He asked for it back on his way out, but the security person said no. Oh well.

We got in and showed them our paperwork and they gave us a form to fill out, and we waited our turn. In about 5 minutes they called us each to the back room where they filled out some more paperwork and then took us each to the fingerprint kiosks. The lady I had sprayed my hands with water and then took each of my fingers and placed it on the 'biometrics reader' thing, and my prints showed up on the computer screen. It was pretty cool, I must say. A couple of fingers she had to do twice, but it was nice to know that they got them right on that visit, so we'll not have to go back. The lady noticed what we were there for and we made small talk about adoption stuff. She said that they get about 60 adoptive parents in per week- mostly from China, but quite a few from Russia too. We were finished 2 minutes before our appointment was set for - I thought it went very quickly for the number of people in the waiting room.

When we got back to our car, it started idling really jerky. I'm not sure how to describe it, because I know nothing about cars, but Brent was worried. Since we were in the area, after fingerprinting, we stopped at a favorite organic grocery store and shopped a bit, but when we got back in the car to leave, the Check Engine light came on. It still ran, jerkily, but Brent didn't think we should go home. Thankfully we were already in Milwaukee when this happened, and not in Sheboygan, because we were only 10 minutes from the Saab dealership, and they took us right away. Brent told him what he thought was wrong (something connected to the sparkplugs? I really have no idea), and they sent us up to their waiting lounge area. About an hour later the mechanic came back, and told Brent that he was correct in his dianosis, and the car was ready. Fortunately, Brent was a couple hundred dollars off from what he thought it would cost, and it only was $350. Also fortunately, I got paid this week, so we didn't have to dip into our adoption savings to pay for it. If there was ever a good time for our car to have a problem, today was it.

Anyway, back to adoption stuff. Now we have to wait for the paper saying that Immigration has accepted our fingerprints, and we're cool to adopt. Following another adoption blog, who just recieved their papers today (congratulations!), we should have ours in a couple weeks. By then we should have our dossier all ready, and then we're close to done!