Did you hear about the snow?

Well, there is a bit of a storm moving up the east coast and has dumped snow everywhere. It ended up leaving anywhere from 3 to 8 or more inches of snow in the Richmond area, so as you might imagine Heather and I are still at home. Our flight to Atlanta was on time until she suggested that I check it as we were about to leave. We were even trying to leave early since the roads were still a little messy. Our flight was canceled at the last minute, nothing else with seats leaving from Richmond or nearby airports, so we aren't leaving today.

I was able to get Delta to rebook us for tomorrow, similar times but going through JFK and leaving RIC at 2:00. Once our travel agent gets in tomorrow (snow kept him home) he will set up the final part of our flight over and we should be good.

Here is a late afternoon shot of the front yard ...



This delay might end up changing our trip, but we aren't sure yet. There is a Russian Holiday this Sunday which will cause Friday to be sort of a half-day. This might mean that we are asked to stay a little extra in the region, so we would stay through the weekend. We don't know if this will happen or how long it would be for, but it's not really a big deal. We've gone through lots of paperwork and issues, but it really isn't much of anything when you think about why we are doing this. There is a little boy sitting in an orphanage in Russia waiting for us to come and get him. That is worth doing all of this paperwork and traveling a second or third or fourth time. As we started this process we really felt good about trying to make the life of a child or two better, in addition to them making our lives better. It will work out in the end, so we'll just stay on this train until we get to the destination.