Saturday, August 18, 2007


We had our excitement for the day. After our video chat to home this morning we headed back to the apartment to watch a movie. As we were watching we heard a huge crash and looked out our window to find a fancy sports car had careened across the sidewalk and drainage canal into the side of our building. The driver and passenger climbed out unhurt. A guy called up to us and I think he asked us to call the police so I just pointed to the woman in the next window who was also watching. I hope he understood that we didn’t speak Russian!

We met up with George and Michelle and went to the museum store to buy another rug. We don’t know if we’ll ever be back here so we might as well take advantage on the good prices of rugs. After our rug purchase we ate at Firenze one last time. I’ll miss the food there!

Coming back into our apartment stairwell we met up with a feral cat that was scared to death of us. Instead of it heading down the stairs it went all the way to the top landing were we needed to be. We stayed back but the cat kept trying to get away from us and it was jumping up and scratching the door to the apartment next to us and crying loud. It finally got the nerve to run past us and wouldn’t you know it right when we got to the apartment door that the cat had been scratching a woman opened it to see what was going on. I assume she asked us what on earth we were doing and I tried to explain it was a cat. I found myself meowing at her and making scratching motions. She either understood or thought we were completely crazy because she closed the door on us. She’ll probably be glad to see that we leave in the morning!

Our driver is picking us up at 4:30 a.m. to take us to the airport and we arrive home Sunday night. I’ll update the blog again when our little boy finally arrives on September12! Best to all. Nancy, Chuck, Russell and Robert!

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