remembering

Today we went to the court early this morning so that we could state our case for adoption before the judge. We got that done fairly quickly and all seemed to go well. We hope to have a ruling soon! After court we came back to the hotel and had a few hours so we walked around town and ended up at the soccer stadium. They let us in and we watched the Junior Rwandan Team practice for a while. We made it back to the hotel to eat and then meet up with the other families. We went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial which is very well done. The beautiful gardens show the life that goes on next to the mass graves of over 200,000. Inside we were educated on the history of Rwanda, then events that led up to the genocide and the reconciliation after the genocide. There is also a room of pictures that families have sent in of those who were killed. Upstairs was an area dedicated to remembering other genocides throughout history and then a room dedicated to the children that were killed. Very sobering - but Rwanda is certainly healing and growing as a country.

We look forward to visiting our children again tomorrow!