well, we rolled in to Albany yesterday afternoon around 4:30 after spending 3 days in Montreal doing our green card stuff at the consulate.

we are the newest permanent residents of the United States of America!! hooray!! we spent all of Wednesday morning at the Consulate where a VERY nice woman pushed our visas through the very same day. we didn’t have to drag Josh back on Thursday morning – i am SO thankful to her, and i don’t even know her name! she’s the single adoptive mom to a little dude whom she adopted from Cambodia – i think she took pity on us being stuck in that waiting room (which is very much like the DMV for any Americans reading this) all morning with Josh.

we enjoyed what we saw of Montreal immensely, and let me just say that The Keg on boul. Rene Levesque was SO awesome – we celebrated my birthday, Valentine’s Day and Green Card Day with dinner there. i have not eaten a Keg meal in ages and my steak did NOT disappoint, dawg! (yes, i’m watching AI again)

the DHS guys at the border were jovial, friendly and quite congratulatory when we were all done there – after about 1 1/2 hours waiting at the border, we were completely done and are now just waiting for our “real” green cards to arrive in the mail. they give you a temporary one in your passport and then send you a separate document to use instead.

WE ARE DONE!!