Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Medical Clinic VisitThere are two reasons you have to finish up a Kazakhstan adoption in Almaty and one of them is to have a medical exam at the SOS Medical Clinic. The second is the paperwork at the U.S. embassy here. Yesterday our coordinator received a faxed copy of Rosa's passport, so that was good enough to take to the clinic for the exam. For the most part the exam went well. Rosa screamed while they took her blood for the HIV exam. I would still think that our daughter Megan has her beat in the drama queen category though.
The SOS clinic is a nice clinic and the staff was very friendly and helpful. We went with the Brothertons, who traveled with us to Uralsk and then back here to Almaty. They are staying in an apartment that is about a 10 minute walk from our apartment.
We're getting into a daily routine here by going to the Internet cafe, shopping, and doing laundry. Today I washed "whites" which since arriving in Kazakhstan have become "grays."
While I was hanging out the laundry on deck, I saw the snow covered mountains outside the city for the first time. It has been so polluted/overcast here that I never saw them until today. They are every bit as impressive as those along the Wasatch Front in Utah.
After the visit to the clinic, our coordinator here took our U.S. embassy paperwork with her to talk to someone at the embassy. She cannot get an appointment until the Kazakhstan passports arrive which will probably be Thursday, so the appointments will most likely be on Friday.
They are starting to decorate around here for Christmas. I took a picture of Rosa in front of a big Christmas tree by our apartment and they are putting another one up next to the big Tsum department store.
It's 11:15 AM right now and I figure Jo Ann will be landing in a little over an hour. We've missed her since she's been gone so I can only imagine how much our other three children have missed her.
After the visit to the clinic, our coordinator here took our U.S. embassy paperwork with her to talk to someone at the embassy. She cannot get an appointment until the Kazakhstan passports arrive which will probably be Thursday, so the appointments will most likely be on Friday.
They are starting to decorate around here for Christmas. I took a picture of Rosa in front of a big Christmas tree by our apartment and they are putting another one up next to the big Tsum department store.
It's 11:15 AM right now and I figure Jo Ann will be landing in a little over an hour. We've missed her since she's been gone so I can only imagine how much our other three children have missed her.
# posted by Buck and Jo Ann @ 9:03 PM 
