Kind Words From Colombia

a few months ago i mentioned our new friends jose & luz helena upegui in our blog. jose works for kone and heath & i had the pleasure of meeting the upegui's back in march of this year. they welcomed us into their home with open arms and shared information and their stories about colombia (jose is from armenia & luz helena is from medellin). about two months ago i found out that jose was relocating back to colombia (with kone) and that he would be living in bogota! luz helena is staying back in moline with their daughter until she graduates from high school, so for now jose is living in an apartment in bogota. we recently corresponded via email and every time i hear from him, i get more and more excited about our upcoming trip! it turns out that he is living very close to los pisingos and not very far from the hotel we are considering staying at. the upegui's are so kind that they have even offered for us to stay at the apartment! his family is almost as excited as we are about our colombian adoption and it gives me such comfort knowing that we have such a wonderful, generous family thinking about us and willing to watch over us while we are far away from home. jose has advised us that, "the upegui network is at our disposal"! thank you upegui family!