Went to America today
Today Brent and I walked to the American Embassy and left Andrei with Dima and Sasha for a few minutes. We basically walked in, handed someone some papers, handed someone else some money (actually credit card), and then got an appointment card for tomorrow afternoon to come back and get Andrei’s paperwork.
The Embassy used to process adoptions in one day but now it takes two.
After tomorrow we have to wait two days while our facilitator files with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then we can go home next Tuesday. I misunderstood about us going home early, so it is not to be.
Then in the afternoon Dima took us to the Church of Jesus the Savior and the Red Square. We took over 100 pictures, so they will hopefully be up soon.
Andrei did fairly well. It was weird seeing him talk with Dima and ask about some of the paintings and exhibits in the Cathedral. We never get to really talk with him and hear what he is thinking. He got a little feisty but then Dima told him to act like a big boy and not a baby, so he shaped up. Maybe I should have asked him how to say that.
After all that it was kind of late so we ordered pizza from a place we found online. Well also at the same time someone came over to look at our phone, because we couldn’t call Internationally anymore. After about two hours I call the pizza place back and ask about our order - apparently the guy was at our place and tried to call us to let him up but since our phone was being fixed we didn’t hear it. So she asked us if we could wait another hour since the delivery guy was on another call. Sure. So we waited. In the end it was about 9:30 when the pizza guy got here and Brent had to go downstairs to meet him and bring our stuff back up. He also had the wrong apartment number.
The pizza was cold and the drinks were warm so we reheated the pizza and the drinks are chilling for tomorrow night.
Since all of this is happening so late, Brent is just now putting Andrei to bed at 10:30. Maybe tomorrow he will let us sleep past 7. One can only hope.
The Embassy used to process adoptions in one day but now it takes two.
After tomorrow we have to wait two days while our facilitator files with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then we can go home next Tuesday. I misunderstood about us going home early, so it is not to be.
Then in the afternoon Dima took us to the Church of Jesus the Savior and the Red Square. We took over 100 pictures, so they will hopefully be up soon.
Andrei did fairly well. It was weird seeing him talk with Dima and ask about some of the paintings and exhibits in the Cathedral. We never get to really talk with him and hear what he is thinking. He got a little feisty but then Dima told him to act like a big boy and not a baby, so he shaped up. Maybe I should have asked him how to say that.
After all that it was kind of late so we ordered pizza from a place we found online. Well also at the same time someone came over to look at our phone, because we couldn’t call Internationally anymore. After about two hours I call the pizza place back and ask about our order - apparently the guy was at our place and tried to call us to let him up but since our phone was being fixed we didn’t hear it. So she asked us if we could wait another hour since the delivery guy was on another call. Sure. So we waited. In the end it was about 9:30 when the pizza guy got here and Brent had to go downstairs to meet him and bring our stuff back up. He also had the wrong apartment number.
The pizza was cold and the drinks were warm so we reheated the pizza and the drinks are chilling for tomorrow night.
Since all of this is happening so late, Brent is just now putting Andrei to bed at 10:30. Maybe tomorrow he will let us sleep past 7. One can only hope.
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