Nov 26: An upcoming visit?

11/26/07: Day 5 of our 10 day wait.

We slept until almost 10:00 this Monday morning. We watched sermon #4 then got ready to go out. We decided to do some walking today, to explore parts of the city that we hadn't seen. It was a little warmer (+8C) so it was a good day for it.

We left the apartment around 11:30. We strolled up Lenina. The internet cafe was the furthest we'd walked before, but we went much further today. We took pictures and video along the way. We got to the square at the end of the street and took pictures of the theater (the white building you see in one of the pictures). We started making our way back towards the apartment, this time on the other side of the street.

We saw a pizza place and thought about stopping, but Zack wasn't sure if we'd be able to order. We kept walking, then he said "We could try if you want." I told him I thought we could muddle our way through. We ordered a pizza with tomatoes and cheese (all the words I knew!) and drinks. We took our drinks and a number to the table. About 10 minutes later a girl brought our paizza. It was very good - plenty for the 2 of us. And the whole meal cost us less than$5.00! We were very proud of ourselves to have gone out to a restaurant on our own.

We sat and watched people for a little while, then bundled up and hit the road again. We ran in the grocery store to pick up some cookies and a small bag of dog food. There was a dog that would always hang out behind our apartment building - we had nicknamed him Scruffy. Zack fed him a piece of ham a few days ago and we've seen him wandering arround the vendors on the corner.

We walked back to our apartment, hoping to see Scruffy. Just as we got behind the buildings, Zack spotted him nosing through the trash. He took the ba of food and dumped it out for him. Scruffy seemed happy, and as we left, he and a white cat were enjoying it.
We went back to the apartment and read for a while. We watched a couple of episodes of 24 and The Office.

Luda called to say that Stasik's grandmother wanted to meet us. This made us a little nervous, since we were still in the wait period, when any family member or orphanage staff person could contest our adoption. But we had to do it. She wanted us to meet her at the orphanage on Tuesday at 3:30, and we could stay and visit with our boy until 5:30. While we were nervous about the meeting, we were so excited to finally see our guy again. The even better news was that we would also be allowed to visit him on Wednesday and Friday from 10 - 12!

We were happy that we would get to see our little man again. We were nervous and anxious about meeting his grandmother.