Short Pause in Kaz

Days 12 and 13 of our 14-day bonding period

We couldn't post yesterday because of problems with this computer. We're combining two days into this post.

It's the weekend and that seems to mean marriages. In today's photo, you can see one of the decorated wedding cars we've mentioned before. This was taken outside a photo studio where a bride and groom ran in to get their wedding portraits taken. There were actually a few couples getting their pictures taken.

Our Saturday and Sunday visits with LG went well. On Saturday, we introduced LG to Cup-O-Noodles and peanut butter and she seemed to like both. Today we only had time for a short visit so we had to go to MacJohn's again. LG had fries with mayonnaise (yuck!).

Our documents came back from Astana (the capitol of Kazakhstan) this morning. Now our coordinator can take them to the Ministry of Education and then somehow arrange a court date.

There are a lot of families adopting right now and getting a court date seems to be finding time in the judge's schedule. Most of the adoptive families are American, but there are at least three German families here in the hotel adopting as well. A couple of days ago, we met a family from Iowa that is adopting three older children. Two of the children are from the same orphanage as LG.

We are really missing our family back home. We hope to be out of here and on our way home very soon.