bigcat

We got what we were after this weekend.

Which was a new copy of our marriage certificate, with the official seal of the State of New Jersey, and authentication of that seal by the Guatemalan Consulate in New York, as required to solve the adoption glitch

How we got it:

1) Drive from Boston to Trenton, NJ, on Memorial Day. Lots of rain on the way, otherwise an uneventful journey.

2) Stay in Marriott hotel in Trenton. Pretty new place, pretty nice. Ate dinner and breakfast there, otherwise mostly slept.

3) Get up Tuesday morning and go to NJ vital stats office. We were the second in line at around 8:30 a.m., when it opened. Get document in about a half-hour.

4) Drive north to New York City, arriving around 11 a.m. at the consulate on Park Avenue South

5) Drive car in circles looking for parking while my wife takes document in to be authenticated.

6) Get call from wife — document is ready already

7) Pick up wife at consulate (have not yet stopped car since Trenton) and head north again
Get to adoption agency at Waltham at around 3:30 p.m.

9) Agency sends doc to Guatemala via FedEx

10) Go home and crash

Any questions?