Our Baby off on an Adventure!

Trinity left this morning for El Salvador.  She made it on the plane by the "skin of her teeth".  Her bags were all overweight (which we expected - $160.00 later), then the Flight Agent informed me I needed to pay an additional $123.00 for an "unaccompanied minor" charge (which ended up being great because they escorted her from security gate, extra attention on the plane and then handed directly to Douglas - he had to sign for her like the precious package that she is).

Now for the "cherry on top" - when I handed them the permission letter I had written, I was then informed that the rules changed 2 weeks ago with El Salvadoran immigration and it had to be notarized.  The desk agent phoned down to El Salvador and they informed her that if she arrived with the letter not notarized by a lawyer, they would deport her right back to Canada.  So, where do you find a lawyer at 8 in the morning in Toronto?  After much running around, a lawyer was found - he was 20 minutes away; he spent all of 3 minutes signing my letter and sealing it and then took my $160.00 CASH and slipped it in his pants pocket.  So, $430.00 later, Trinity was finally on her way. 

Douglas was of course over the moon to receive her in El Salvador.  She is tentatively booked to come back in September, but she may stay longer, we shall see!