Spoons

We took the morning to get some rest as Dylan has been a touch under the weather (all better now). Went over to the orphanage this afternoon to see the kids. The weather is cold and wet (snowed last night) so it was a hang out indoors kind of day. When we do indoor visits to the orphanage, Masha prefers we hang out in their room. Usually we'll play games, it gives us a good opportunity to spend time that is not language intensive. Today the game started with us, then after a couple rounds, added a few of her friends from across the hall. The door to her room was open and we'd add a couple kids. Then a couple more. And a couple more! Even some boys I would have labeled as too cool to play ended up coming in and stayed for quite awhile, until it was time for them to leave for school. We ended up with nearly 20 kids playing two big games of spoons! No clever analogy tonight, it was just neat to see kids who probably rarely if ever get to be kids, get to be kids :) Said our goodbyes to our soon to be kids, Masha gave me a big hug and said "I love you". That'll work :)

After our visit back to the flat, we ventured and cooked a real dinner for ourselves tonight, chicken with mushrooms and pasta, fresh bread, turned out quite good. Cooking can be an adventure since we can't read directions, ingredients, etc., and rely on the pictures on the packaging. Relaxing now in anticipation of a great day with the kids tomorrow!