Sputnik

Today was a run around day. Taking care of administrative family stuff (hey, the world didn't totally stop back home...) in the morning, and then we did lunch with our driver, Vitaly and his girlfriend Liana (spelling on both?). Went to a sushi place in the mall with the ice rink. I don't eat sushi but all the sushi eaters said it was very good. Then we went to see the kids and run around a bit with them, Vitaly suggested the space museum here in Zhytomr. It's a small one but has some very cool stuff in it on the Russian space program. Model of the Soyuz spacecraft and the actual Soyuz 27 capsule the cosmonauts returned to earth in, autographed by the two cosmonauts. It's really like a 5 foot round great big hollowed out ball bearing. The tour guide spoke good english, it was very interesting to hear the narration of the space program from the other side of the cold war perspective. Another analogy moment looking at the sputnik model (the thing wasn't that big in size...) in that this is what our two new kids will be doing. Getting in a plane and going to a whole new world. It has been a great experience for our family to be here and feel out of place as it gives us a good taste of what they will experience when they go to America. Then hung out with the kids at the flat for awhile more, google translated some to explain the next couple days, pizza for dinner and back to the orphanage and home. Thanks for your prayers, please pray that the official you can go to court papers are ready at the SDA today for our facilitator, so that we can have our court date on Thursday. It's almost here!