Flag Day

 You only get one Flag Day, so we had to make it special.  In normal circumstances (not during Covid) everyone meets together to get their assignment and get a flag of their country, but because of Covid, Flag Day was virtual (surprise surprise).  On the bright side, the kids were able to attend, and we made a little party out of it.  I ordered a pack of 100 random different country toothpick flags.  Out of the 49 countries that were on Josh's bid list, there were 29 country flags in our bag of random flags.  We put those flags on our mini cupcakes.

 It worked out that our flag was one of those 29!

If you don't know what flag that is, and you didn't see my social media post about it, then I guess you will have to keep reading to find out! :)

Flag Day hour (as Pay called it) took place at 1 pm, right during Tiny T's nap- Thank goodness! Since Josh was required to have his camera on, we all dressed up.  We hooked Josh's lap top into the tv, and we were all in the camera view of his laptop during the presentation.  The kids sat so good listening and waiting.  We, were of course, on mute the whole time, so when somebody did have a question, it wasn't a big deal.

I set my phone (camera) up in front of the tv to record our reaction for when we found out our country. A picture of the flag of  the country being announced took up the full screen, then the announcer would say the city, country, job and then say the specialist or officer (employee) assigned to that country with a smaller picture of the specialist or officer overlaying on the flag picture.  Every time it was a possibility for us, we would warn the kids and Josh and I both had butterflies until the moment passed and it wasn't ours. 

When the announcer called Brasilia, Brazil- Consular, I knew it was us... I didn't have butterflies.  Sure enough they called Josh's name, and we were so excited.  Brasilia was one of our top choices, and the more we learn about it the more we are excited to go! Trexton didn't know what was going on when he woke up, but he did see the cupcakes and that's all he cared about.

We will be in DC for a bit longer (until early next year) while Josh does more training, including language training for Portuguese.  

Get ready for us Brasilia because we are getting ready for you!!!