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Arrival and starting the adventure

Taking on an adventure this size, at our age, with our agenda is far beyond of what you might thing of Bilbo's adventure. We hope it won't take as long as his, but sometimes I think I would rather face a dragon. It seems easier. We arrived in Tartagal, Salta (a province in northern Argentina) at 6:30 in the morning, after a very uncomfortable trip in a crowded bus. Got to the hotel, at a mere 15 kilometers, in a taxi older than my radio, listening to music from another century, and trying to remember what the f*** we were doing there. Ah, the kids, right... let's move on. The hotel is not what we came here to see, skipped. We took almost all day recovering of how tired we were, repeating to ourselves that our adventure, did't even started. We had a simple breakfast, and went to bed for a nap. Went downtown, well, simply around the main square, walked heading to nowhere, and back again. A simple dinner, and back to bed again. Jolene, stop laughing, am rushing this pa...

Why are we doing this ???

(Thanks Matt for the title) Becoming adoptive parent is a great adventure that you cannot foresee almost anything. You are not given almost any time to plan, you have close to no decision power, and you can only say either if you want to play this game or not. Off course the decision is not easy at all. As every couple we started trying "the natural way" (you don't need a drawing, do you ???) I'm talking to you, reader… Yeah, I got that awful habit as a writer, to talk to my readers, while they are reading. You see, I am what I write, and I express my feelings, my ideas, what makes me happy or what makes me cry. If you're reading this, I will also be talking to you. As time passed by, and the natural way was not giving us any result, the alternatives came up into play. To make the long story short, we ended with the adoption process. And here we are. And here are you reading our history, and our story. We are now in a plane, heading to some remote ...