"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name, welcomes me" - Matthew 18:5

Welcome to our on-line journal about our quest to adopt 2 little girls from Russia. You will see our most recent entries just below this paragraph. To start at the beginning scroll down the right side to the ARCHIVES and click on April 2004.

November 23, 2004

FiINALLY HERE WITH OUR LITTLE ANGELS

I finally got enough energy to walk to Internet cafe. We arrived yesterday at 7:30 am, we didn't make it to the hotel until 9:00 because they lost a box of toys that Tracy gave us that we were donating to the orphange. It was difficult at first because no one spoken English at the airport. Finally a Russian gentleman on our flight who spoke English saw we were having problems, and he offered to help. He found out the airport manager spoke English, and he waited with us until she came to work. When she finally arrived she was very helpful and promised to look for our box. While we were checking in at hotel, she called, they found the box and promised to delivered it to the hotel.
We ate breakfast and then went to baby home. Pixie came straight to us, Dimples was a little afraid at first, but quickly warmed up to us. Pixie's head was shaved, but since we can't communicate with anyone, we have no idea why. We got to spend lunch with them, little Pixie is so cute, putting the whole tablespoon in her mouth with soup on it, then licking it clean before putting it back in the bowl. Dimples continues to constantly chatter, even when eating. We went back to hotel and took a nap, back at 4:00 to baby home.
When I gave them the dolls we brought them, Dimples was thrilled and kept repeating "kookla" (Russian for doll) and she kept trying to run out of the room to show everyone the 'kookla' that we gave her. Exhausted, we returned to the hotel at 6:00 ate a light dinner and then slept 12 hours.
Next day back to the orphanage twice again.
We haven't had any problems with transportation, since Alex was emailed us the addresses of the baby home and the hotel. We just go out to the street where the taxi's line up and show them the address, then Rich shows them a slip of paper with 60 rubles written on it(the price of cab ride our last trip)-they usually agree with this price. The box of toys was delivered and we gave them to Katya who was thrilled to have the new toys and took them straight to the dorm for them to play with. Dimples came out with the big truck on our second visit and played with it, running it up and down the room and laughing.

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