Wheels On The Bus

We continue to get to know our home away from home while we wait for the adoption process to complete.  Nothing more left for us to do until it finalizes and then we run around getting papers.  So today we adventured again and took the bus for the first time.  We connected with Alex, our musician landlord (and incredibly cool guy) who showed us first where the post office is (we've been walking by it...) and then our first bus ride.  Buses here aren't like ones in America, they're usually glorified vans or short buses like churches have.  We're just going down the main drag to Global UA (the mall with the McDonalds and the ice rink).  The trick is to find one that isn't too crowded and hop on!  The trip worked out well, and I was duly rewarded with a Big Mac meal :)  Yummy.  We picked up some soccer balls for our trips to the orphanage.  I sat out today's trip as my back has been giving me trouble, but I hear, as good as the kids there can play with the half inflated dead ball or worn out volleyball they've been using, they're scary good with an actual soccer ball!  More and more kids each trip come over and hang out or talk with us, or play soccer or tag.  It's been fun to meet more and more kids, yet sad that when we leave with our two, as awesome as that will be, it will also mean leaving the rest behind.