Short Pause in Kaz

Last Posting from Uralsk

Rosa slept well last night on the bed we made on the sofa. She went to bed at around 10:00 and she went right to sleep. She got up at about 8:30 this morning and only ate a little bit of oatmeal. Luckily, she ate a good lunch. One of our American neighbors brought us over some peanuts and she has been eating a lot of those too.

I took this picture of Rosa this morning after she did her own hair. She is wearing all of the new barrets we bought her yesterday at the store around the corner from our hotel.

We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. This will be the Thanksgiving that we'll remember for having Cup-O-Noodles. I think we will celebrate at a restaurant tonight with Kate and maybe with our driver and his wife on our official last night here.

I'm not sure where we'll be staying in Almaty. That will be up to our coordinator. We've requested an apartment. I will post to this blog as soon as I can find an Internet cafe. We have been told that we can get a medical appointment for Rosa as soon as we get to Almaty. In other words, Rosa doesn't need a Kazakhstan passport for that step. She will need one though for our appointment with the U.S. consulate to get a visa. Our application for a Kazakhstan passport is already in Astana (the capitol). It will get processed and then sent back here, where Kate will then forward it to our coordinator in Alamty.