Friday, July 21: Update on Domestic Passport... we were successful with meeting the "chief" and she is more than happy to make sure Lily's domestic passport will be ready on Monday at 1:30 pm. Hurrah! With that, we should have a 24 hour turn-around which means we "should" be in Moscow on Wednesday... If Alex has his ducks in a row there, we could ... maybe, maybe, maybe be home by Friday... please make this priority prayer number one for us as we do not want to "visit" Moscow all weekend (at $350/night)...
All is well. Today was a great day... we had lovely ride on the canals and then went to a Georgian cafe for dinner after a good walk. Tomorrow, we are off to Peterhof and we have invited one of Lily's friends, Valya, from the orphanage (girl with curly hair in the graduation pictures from our first trip). Hope to post some new FlickR pics this weekend.
Have to try the "next" level up tomorrow to get Lily's domestic passport expedited. Let's hope for the best! Everything else went great... have her adoption certificate and new birth certificate. Had fun going CD shopping with Lily while Mike stayed home. Then we went to a great restaurant called the Cafe Art Deco ... highly recommend it to anyone looking for reasonable eats but classy decor. It's 10:30 at night, but it looks and feels like 8 pm ... so hard to get used to these long days.
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Things are going well here! We're just hanging out today, after going putt-putting earlier. Ryan came, and little Andrew has been tagging along, too. Kip and Ryan leave tomorrow for Annapolis, and he's all packed to go. Sarah picks up Sergei tomorrow evening, so I'll take care of the animals tonight and tomorrow. Kip put the stuffed animals in Lilly's room today. He's really good at accomplishing tasks. He just gets it done, it's great. He's so funny! I'm in a time warp, though. All I remember is my days here 4 years ago. What a change!
We're keeping you in prayer!
So glad to hear that things went smoother for you today and that you and Lily spent a fun day together! Hope the passport process goes quickly tomorrow and you'll soon be winging your way home.
Godspeed,
Judy
Still praying for you that things will progress as hoped!
YAHOOOOOO!! Can't wait to see you all. Thanks for the blog and all the info and picks. jk
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