WE MADE IT!!! Yep, we made it all the way around the world and boy do we feel like we've been all the way around the world. Our trip started Sunday morning at 10:00am when we left for Atl. We landed in our region at what would have been 6:00 pm Monday night at home. Along the way we had quite an adventure. The airport we flew into in Moscow was NOT the airport we were flying out of to get to Vlad. So Daniel and I...you know the experienced world travelers we are...had to get ourselves through Moscow about 1.5 hrs away to the other airport. This required that we take a train out of the airport to the subway in downtown Moscow. Then we had to figure out how to get on the right metro (subway) to get to another train station to take a train ride to the right airport. Each train ride was 35 min and the subway was supposed to take about 10 min. Weeellll, 4 metros and about 30 minutes later we emerged at the train station to take our last 35 min train ride to the airport. Sounds easy enough right? Problem is EVERYTHING in Russia is written, well, in Russian. If you've ever seen Russian you know it doesn't look anything like the word sounds in English. We were armed with a Russian map that a kind lady had so graciously circled our destinations on. We finally made it, and took off for the last 1/2 of the trip.
First flight= 10 hrs.
Moscow adventure= 2.5 hrs
Second flight= 9 hrs
Did I mention that the entire time we were traveling, it was daylight? Yep, no nighttime for like 48 straight hours. Really weird feeling.
Our coordinator met us at the airport and took us to the hotel. They told us the roads here were awful. Well, awful ain't the word. It took us 2.5 hrs to go about 10 miles. There are NO traffic laws, no lanes, no pavement, and no even roads. It was a very interesting trip to say the least.
Once we got to the hotel, we met a very nice couple from California and ran some errands with them. Our first errand was going to the Ministry of Education to get permission to visit the baby home tomorrow. We were both pretty nervous. The lady asked us some basic "Why did you want to adopt when you already have 4 kids?" questions. The same one a lot of you have asked, only she did it in a much less friendly tone. Russia is a very interesting place. Very different from America, but interesting in its own way.
We are going to bed early tonight. Just ordered room service and plan to hit the sack in a little bit. We have to be ready by 7:45 tomorrow morning to make the 2.5 hr drive to the baby home to see Lex. Can't wait to meet him. God has shown me just in the short time we've been here how he has this baby planned just for us. Can't wait to share it with all of you. We miss you and we love you! Say a prayer for us tomorrow.
Good night from the Vlad Inn!!
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