Thursday, August 16, 2007


Your getting apartment pictures now since I can’t get any photos of Robert!

We headed to the Internet Café about five this morning for our video chat back home. Russell loves school and of course, he’s having a great time with Mimi and Poppee. We both fell back to sleep when we got back to the apartment and only woke up when we got a phone call at 11 a.m. from our interpreter, Oleyssa, saying she and Aigul, our facilitator, would be at our apartment in 15 minutes with paperwork for us to sign. We hustled around trying to straighten up the apartment. This jetlag stuff is no fun.

They said we need to be at the courthouse for a nine a.m. court hearing on Friday. That’s 10 p.m. central time so keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We also found out that Oleyssa will be the one who will escort Robert home and it looks like they will be coming around September 23. Unfortunately, they also said the director does not want us to see Robert at all because it will upset him when we leave again. We can go after court tomorrow and watch him play without him seeing us.

We went to Firenze, one of our old haunts, for lunch. After lunch Anastasia picked us up along with George and Michelle, the couple we met last time from Ohio, and we headed to the U.S. Embassy to do paperwork. The paperwork was easy enough but we did run into a rude American who announced he was going to cut in line because he was in a hurry. Now I see how Americans get a bad name!

We then headed down to the Green Market for Michelle to find something to wear to court. Yes, they lost her luggage.

We’re off to the store to buy cakes and juice to take to the Baby House tomorrow for a celebration. Of course, we don’t get to celebrate with Robert and his group, but they’ll have fun.

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