Finally in Krasnoyarsk

Well, we are here and mostly settled in. We are connecting to the internet from our room, they have free wireless so it will be easier to blog and check email. We didn't notice this last time, so that is a nice change. Now a little recap of our journey so far ...

Saturday - Flew out at 12:15 to Atlanta. Nothing super exciting. Sat in Atlanta for a little while. Overheard several couples on our flight talking about adopting. The storms caught up with us and there was a brief period of heavy rain. Our plane had some issue so they put us on another plane at another gate, but same type of plane and tickets. We left a little late but arrived in Moscow on time. (Insert long flight here)

Sunday - Arrive in Moscow airport. Meet our translator and drive to our hotel. There is a big concert event in town, so hotels were booked up. We were supposed to stay at a Holiday Inn but stayed at a local type place. Not that bad, but glad to be only one night. It was a little odd since it was a new place. We walked around the streets outside the hotel a little, stopped at a 'market' to get a water (you only want to drink bottled water, and it is sometimes carbonated) and went back to the room. We rested and prepared for tomorrow, the medical visits. One more day down.

Monday - Still in Moscow, we leave the hotel and go to the medical place. This is the '8 doctor medical' you might have heard about. You talk with 8 doctors, nothing much, more of a formality than anything detailed. We saw a few of the couples from the plane. They we ahead of us, so we saw them at each 'station'. There was more waiting than doctor visiting, but we left with our paperwork needed for court. Yay! We had several hours until it was time to leave for the airport, so we were dropped off at a mall. We went inside to the food court to get something to eat. We had our choice of Sbarro, Baskin Robbins, McDonalds, KFC or a Russian potato eatery. We got McDonalds chicken nuggets and something called 'Village Potatoes' that our translator recommended. They were small potatoes cut into wedges, baked with a seasoning that was really good. Too bad they don't offer these back home. We then walked around a park that was next to the mall. Lots of apartment buildings around so I guess the park is popular with everyone. It was a nice day out so we at on the benches some and enjoyed our time here. It was kind of odd to be sitting in some random park somewhere in Moscow and people were acting pretty much just like back home. 

We then left for the airport, got on our plane and took off.

Tuesday - Arrived in Kras at 6 am. We still had our checked luggage so that was nice. Met our translator here, waited for our luggage, then left for the city. We had barely gotten used to the 8 hours Moscow was ahead, and now we were 4 more hours ahead. That plus lack of sleep left us messed up regarding time of day and all. We got to the hotel and checked in and it was around 8:00 when the translator left. We thought we would take a short nap but crashed and ended up sleeping lots more. We didn't really do much today. Got a few things at the market. It got dark here much later. We had blue sky and still light until about 10 pm. We are now back in the room.

We will go to the orphanage at 11am tomorrow, yay! I don't know how long we will be there or when we will go next. We'll take the items we didn't get to leave last time (since our luggage had been lost) and see how Baby Boy is doing. More stuff tomorrow to post.