What more could go wrong?!

Well, we've hit another road block. This adoption has certainly been a challenge for us. Although I can say Miss PEA is an absolute dream!! She is doing VERY well with us now. Oh, the road block.... well, yesterday we went to the doctor for our medical visit for the Embassy and Pala's birthdate is wrong on her passport. It says 2009 instead of 2008 for her year of birth. So after a very long day of trying to get someone here in New Delhi to help us... Shad flew back to Kolkata this morning to try to get it taken care of. Pala and I have transfered to the Hyatt Regency. It's gated and I feel much more comfortable here. It's quite pricey but safety is my main concern right now. Do not stay at any of the Parkland hotels... I repeat... do not stay at any of the Parkland hotels. What a fiasco!!! Kristy L will agree with me!! We had a terrible time with them. We were supposed to stay at the Parkland Greenpark on Sunday... even confirmed our reservations there... when we got there to check in we weren't in the system, then after getting a bit nasty... oh, my there we were but they didn't have a room for us!!! They transfered us to a different Parkland out by Nerhu Place and it was not pleasant. The room was nice but the noise was awful. We couldn't make calls from our room or use the internet. "They were having some problems with them" we were told but we could give them the numbers we needed to call and they would connect them for us. So, we tried that.... 15 minutes later (and some longer) we were connected. Grrrr!!! The service sucked!! Well, not all of it, there was one bellboy that was an absolute sweetheart! Yesterday we asked for a car @ 8:30 am so we could go to the doctor appointment by 9am and at 10:15 the car was still not there. We were told it would be there in 20 minutes and that they had just called them. As if that didn't start my day off well!! Then we went to the doctors office (1st on the list). It was nice but busy. We really didn't wait all that long but the receptionist kept saying "Your daughter 2 months?". No, she's 14 months... again "No... your daughter 2 months?" "No" I said speaking very slowly... "No, she is 1 year and 2 months." Then she showed me Pala's passport. My heart sank!! Now what do we do?! The doctor called us into his office and did the exam, then explained that he couldn't write the report until the passport was fixed. We should go to the Embassy and explain the situation and see what they think would be the best way to handle it. So, 2 hours at the Embassy, they sent us to the Regional Passport office in Delhi. At the passport office they yelled at Shad and told him it was his fault there was a mistake and said he was getting involved because it was US adoption case. So back to the Embassy we went to let them know what had taken place and they started yelling at Shad. Shad raised his voice and started getting a little crappy with them and the guard came over. The guard was very nice and couldn't believe that we were being treated this way... that was OUR Embassy. After 2 hours of being treated like total crap we were no further ahead and were told that next time we should look at things more closely. So we went back to the hotel and called Ms. Roy, booked the first flight out this morning to Kolkata for Shad only (at Ms. Roy's request because of some sort of protest march going on). They will go to the passport office in Kolkata and hopefully get this taken care of. Needless to say we checked out of the awful Parkland and are now at the Hyatt. Way more than I wanted to spend but we are safe. This trip has been a nightmare and I can't wait to get home to my boys!!! Doesn't look like we are going to make it to the Taj... but I'm to the point I really don't care. I just want to be home on US soil!!! When I can find the humor in all of this I will try to post some positive parts of the trip. For now please please please say a prayer for us!! I really need this mess to be over with so I go home to have Thanksgiving with my family!!! I'm sooooo homesick right now and I feel trapped in a really bad dream that I can't wake up from.