Bonding Day 7

We were able to meet the official Orphanage Director today as she was back from vacation. Super nice lady; as is all the staff @ Kids Village…we really lucked out. At first we met with the Director and with the representative from the Guardianship office to make sure that everything was going ok during our visits. Today was movie day! We brought Ratatouille and Tom & Jerry in Russian. He’d stay interested for a couple minutes, but then would want to play with his new police motorcycle. We put together the Spiderman puzzle again and he is getting faster at finishing it each time. We played with a new game on our cell phone that let him be a pilot and fly a plane – loved it! Today we got to spend about 3 hours with him and when it was time for us to go, we got to walk him to his house. He told us that he didn’t want to go to his home and that he wanted to come home with us to America and that he would fly on a plane to get there! We’re making progress everyday!!

Right after the visit, we went with another coupe here from Canada and our translator to the shopping mall to have lunch and do some clothes shopping for our kids. Lunch was delicious; we had dumplings stuffed with meat and potatoes and bread stuffed with potatoes. We went outside to the Bazaar which is kind of like an outdoor market/flea market type of place. You can get things really inexpensively and can haggle over prices. We found all sorts of new clothes, shoes, coat etc for D and of course a couple of toys as well! We got some great items for future “GOTCHA DAYS” and had fun with everyone! Big purchase of the afternoon – a fan!!!! After shopping for hours, we quickly took a taxi home and dropped off our bags and freshened up. We then took another taxi over to a fellow American’s apartment to meet her and have dessert. It was fun to meet her and hear all about her travels as well.

It was a long day and by the time we got home, we were beat!
-C&D