Back home after the first trip

Well, here is a (probably) not very quick rundown of how our trip went. All in all it went very well. We met Baby Boy on Thursday and it was perfect. We were in the play room waiting for what we thought would be a first meeting with the head doctor. We were pleasantly surprised to have on of the caregivers bring in Baby Boy for us, fresh from a nap. I had the camera and flip digital ready so got a good shot of our first minute. The caregiver brought him in, put on a bib (drooling from new teeth, 6 so far), and Heather reached out and he walked straight to her. She picked him up and he put his head on her shoulder, a good first meeting. Wow!

So, to back up a little bit ... our flight on Tuesday was delayed due to engine issues. We finally left but, of course, missed our connecting flight in JFK to Moscow. They auto-booked us for a flight to Atlanta that night then the Atlanta to Moscow flight the following day. Not good. So we stood in line for almost 2 hours and fortunately had someone help us that understood how desperate we were to get a flight that night. She re-booked us on a flight with Air France, so we ended up being routed through Paris to get to Moscow. Those flights went well, not so bad.

Things got a little sketchy when we flew into Moscow. Not because of it being Moscow so much as timing of flights. The passport control line took forever, our luggage hadn't arrived, we had to fill out forms for that, so we didn't have much time to spare to get to our next flight. It was in a different terminal and barely made it as the agency people had to drive us very quickly over there. They actually held up the boarding of the flight for us. So, we ended up getting to the region on time.

We never got our luggage until we were back in Moscow on our way out. Then a long flight from Moscow to Atlanta and back home. Whew.

But anyway, back to the reason why we went over there! We had a visit Thursday afternoon, first with Baby Boy then the head doctor at the orphanage. We had a few hours playing with him, then the talk with the doctor went well. Updated information and things were still looking very good. Friday's visit was in the morning, spent more time with him, he even fell asleep with Heather holding him while there were other things going on in the room. A good way to end the visit, but we didn't want it to end.

Hopefully we won't have to wait too long to go back, but we don't know how long it will take. Cross your fingers that it goes a little quickly and we can get him back here.

More soon as that wasn't much, but it was a whirlwind tour so not really much to say.