Itinerary for Our Trip

Ok, so I didn't think to post our itinerary to let you all know what a whirlwind trip this will be. I am thinking I will be tired for weeks afterwards. Guess it will prepare me for when we come home with 2 babies! Then there will really be no sleep. So here it the trip itinerary:

Sat. Feb. 3rd = stay @ hotel near LAX (los angeles)
Sun. Feb. 4th = 7:30 am flight to JFK (pray for NO snow, transfer to different flight to Moscow)
Mon. Feb. 5th = 11am, arrive into Moscow Russia, change airports to take a flight to Orenburg.
Tues. Feb.6th = Orenburg (guessing MoE this day and possibly visiting girl)
Wed. Feb. 7th = Orenburg (guessing we'll travel to Orsk this day. 3 hr trip 1 way. Have been told it's a VERY long day)
Thurs.Feb.8th = Fly back to Moscow
Fri. Feb.9-11 = Moscow on our own (SCARY! any suggestions besides the obvious on what to visit?)
Sun. Feb.11th = JFK and overnight in New York. I've never been. I would love to see Time Square!
Mon. Feb.12th = travel home to California. It's a no school day for me. Thank you President Lincoln! You know us in the public school system, we take as many holidays as possible.

So that's what we know right now. We have decided to not hire a doctor out of Moscow to accompany us to the Orenburg region. We are going to take video and pictures and send them back to a doctor here who specializes in this area. This is so hard. I question myself all the time wondering whether or not we are making the right decisions. I was just mentioning that this adoption process was very similar to IVF in the fact that one day you are on cloud 9 and excited and the very next day for no apparent reason, you are in the dumbs thinking it's going to be a bust. Don't ask me why but it just happens! Go figure. Whoever knew becoming a mom would be do difficult emotionally and physically.

Hope everyone is doing well. We here in SoCal are soooo done with this wind! I swear I feel like we live in a wind tunnel. My heat has never been on this long either. Good grief! Guess it's better this way. That way maybe Russia in the dead of winter won't be such a shock! Yah, right! It's 30 degrees there all week and probably snowing.