I am happy to report that both kids slept through the night although both parents still woke up at around 3am. Oh well. We just sit in bed and are in awe that we have 2 kids sleeping near us that we can call our own. It all seems a bit strange still. Things are going well with the kids and we aren't having any major problems. This is a good thing.
We start our day again around 5:30am with the kids and play on the floor with them. Same toys although Kyle has his own set so we have a total of 6. Didn't have room in the suitcase for anymore stuff. We have some breakfast and drink our instant coffee and just sort of hang out for the day. We will pack our things up today as we will be leaving for Moscow tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn. Steve and I decide to take both of the kids on this little shopping excursion to get them used to the carriers that I brought for them. We'll make it our test run before we slam them in them tomorrow for an extended period. Yena tells us that we will leave at 11am to go shopping. We start to get ourselves ready and move in that direction. Yena has to leave to run an errand but will be back. I get in the shower to get ready while Steve has the kids. After I get out and get dressed, I decide to call my dad to see if he can help us get our plane tickets changed to Tuesday. Yena had told us that we could use their phone but to see how many minutes we used. Fine by me. As long as I can figure out how to call. I pick up the phone and dial home. My dad answers the phone and I am all business. Poor guy. I tell him to get a pen and get ready to write as I am calling from their phone and need his help. I give him the low down briefly. He asks me how things are and I hit the wall. I just lose it and start to bawl. I just don't know if it was that I was talking to my dad or if it was just that I could talk to someone in the states and feel a little bit of home. I am sure I was just on emotion overload and was just DONE. Stick a fork in me and turn me over. I am ready to get out of here. Steve sees me crying and is in the other room with the kids. I am glad they are in there as I don't want them to see me. I don't want them to be upset. Dad tells me he'll get right on it with our plane stuff and I tell him that we'll be OK. He wants us home as much as we do. I hang up the phome and Steve gives me a hug. I lose it again. I tell him that I am going to stay here with the kids and he is going to go out by himself and get the supplies that we need. Both kids are sort of fussy right now and they are about to go down for a nap. Steve is fine with this and he continues to get ready.
Yena returns home and is ready to pick us up. The phone rings and Yena tells Steve that it's Sergei on the phone. He was one of our translators from our first trip who we enoyed so much. He is also Anfisa's son. He informs Steve that the blood work test came back and it is good news. We ask if this means we can get home sooner. No dice. We're still going to leave on Tuesday. Oh well! It was worth a shot. Sergei tells Steve that he will be coming with him today on the excursion. That will be nice. Yena speaks darn little English and we need to find diapers and formula.
Yena and Steve head out the door and I stay behind with the kids. They both go down for a nap and I go to the other room where there is a window cracked and sit on the sofa. I catch up a little bit on my journaling and just get some down time. There is not much else to do since the power has gone out. Yup. No electricity.
Steve, Sergei and Yena come back around 2 or so and we all have some lunch. It is nice to see Sergei again. We brought him some LA County Fire TShirts and a DVD movie. He also has gifts for us which are related to Orenburg. Lunch that Yena made was really awesome. We each had our own individual ceramics pots and they were filled with chicken, potatoes and onion. It was all baked in the oven. It was really good. Oh, and of course we also had bread! Can't forget the bread.
After lunch, the guys take off again. This time Sergei is going to take Steve to the fire department and to the fire museum. I hand Steve the camera and bid them goodbye. The kids and I settle in to some more play time together. I actually try to sneek in a little nap buy Kyle has other plans. Brooke goes down for hers but Kyle is not having anything to do with it. So we just sort of sit together on the bed and wait for everyone to come home.
Steve comes home awhile later and tells me that the trip was cut short when Yena's car broke down. Fortunately they were right in front of the fire department. They were able to go there and to go the the museum. The museum trip was cut short when Anfisa said there was another car on the way to pick them up and take them back. Steve was able to get a few pictures in a the museum before heading out in addition to being taken on the tour by the director himself. They piled him high with little trinkets and stuff that we will put in Kyle's fireman's room.
Now that Steve is home, our job is to pack up all of our crap into the suitcases and get ready for our trip back to Moscow tomorrow. I am a bundle of nerves just thinking about traveling with 2 new kids. We get to work and put all of our stuff together. It's going to be an early morning. I have plans of waking at 3am even after showering tonight. I don't know how long it will take me to get ready in addition to 2 kids. Whoo Hoo. We are 1 day closer to coming home.
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