Friday is here, although for us Saturday is almost here

This whole time zone thing is just tough. Even being out of town for almost a week, we still aren't 100% caught up here. I thought we would be, but I sure was wrong.

Today started off early with a morning visit to the orphanage. We met one of our translator's students downstairs to act as our translator today. Our normal one is working on translating the recent document we brought for the court and hopefully submitting them to the judge today. We found out that we would be going to the orphanage with another person adopting. A single woman and her out-of-town friend were heading there also. She is actually adopting 2 girls who are sisters, but one is at the same orphanage as us and one is more in the city. This is her first trip but was busy making trips to two orphanages. 

We get there and Baby Boy comes out relatively quickly. These early visits are hard on him, he seems to get tired more quickly. It was also busy in there so he was curious about all that was going on. Not only did this other lady have her girl in there, but a little later on the caretakers had 'fun time' for some of the children. They did this when we were here last time (they do it each Friday). They were having a puppet show for the kids and Baby Boy was interested in what was going on. That in addition to his being tired made him a little cranky. He wanted to watch the puppet show and then started to break down from being tired. He didn't want to be held and sleep or even sleep on a mat, I guess he just wanted his bed. Heather was able to get him to sit with her and watch the puppet show some, but then it ended and it was getting close to when we were leaving and he just cried. Nothing we could do, but then his caretaker came in to get him and he stopped crying a little. Whether because she had him or he knew that he was going to his bed, I don't know, but it was nice that he was feeling better. We did get some good play time and pictures and he was laughing some. 

His laugh isn't quite what a kid's normally is, not as loud or 'external'. I guess he doesn't get the one-on-one contact as much so doesn't laugh as much as normal, so he hasn't gotten to the laugh out loud type of stage. That will change, he will be in for so many changes it will probably be hard for him at first but hopefully he will adjust quickly. 

We got back to the hotel and rested a little before heading out for lunch. We went to get the same pizza as before, it's a nice lunch meal and actually very good pizza. That and 2 cokes makes for a good lunch. We went there at about 2:30 and it was real busy. I don't know if the normal lunch time is later or what. We watched a little more hockey on tv (the IIHF world championships in Switzerland) and then headed out to a different grocery store. It was supposed to be bigger and have more options. It was about 2 blocks from the hotel and had more things to choose from, including baby food and diapers, etc. so we will be heading back there after we get Baby Boy. We had dinner in the restaurant and that was it for us. The time change monster hit us again, though we had hoped it would let us get through the day. We almost made it without hitting a wall so that was nice. 

So, tomorrow is the Victory Day celebration. It will be interesting to see if there is a parade or other things going on. Hopefully we can get out and see it. I promise to get some pictures but it has been a little overcast and we are having issues with the time change so don't hold it against me, please. Orphanage again on Monday, then court on Tuesday. Fingers crossed! Although the judge shouldn't say 'Nyet!', she could still give us a hard time.