A day and a half left

Yes everyone, we are practically to the point that we are counting the hours until we leave for Almaty. Tomorrow is a pretty big day, the adoption becomes official tomorrow and we go to get Megan's birth certificate. We are getting picked up at 9:15 or so tomorrow morning to do this task. Inna says it might take a while, we have to wait while they process all the paperwork, I'm not sure if that is a half hour or 3 hours, Amy seems to think it should be a half hour or so. I guess we will find out tomorrow. We also got some incredible news today, first we got a call from Inna and she said we can plan to leave Almaty to come home next Saturday the 21st, AWESOME. Amy got right on the horn to the airline office in Almaty to switch our plane tickets, we were going to have a longer layover in Chicago on the way home but we don't care at this point. Then a little while later Inna called back again and said our Embassy appointment is on Wednesday and we could leave to come home Thursday the 19th! Unbelievable, could it be that the ball is finally bouncing our way? Amy gets back on the phone to Lufthansa and finds out they have no flights from Almaty to Frankfurt on Thursday, ok, so the ball is bouncing towards us, just not directly to us, it is Friday the 13th after all, everything can't run out perfect. So we are booked to come home Friday the 20th, that is still 5 days earlier than we expected. Very exciting, we can't wait, I can almost feel that refreshingly warm wind chill coming off Lake Erie.

Anyway, other than the excitement of planning our trip home, nothing else really happened today. Here we thought Megan was so good when she feel asleep so easily last night, well, she had payback in mind for us not letting her nap when it was time. She had a VERY restless night. I think she was awake screaming about every hour and a half. This was a lesson learned, no more missed naps!!!!! She has napped good for us today though and still seems a little tired.

Well here are today's pictures, I went out to run a couple errands and took a few pictures of the street scene around our apt.






A view up one of the main streets near our apt, notice the jalopy sitting next to the curb. But that SUV coming up behind the red car is like a brand new Toyota 4 Runner or something similar.


This is a shot of the main intersection by us, hey Hendo, if you can see it, that car on the far left of the picture, the little white one with a blue stripe, that's a police car. Click on the picture and you can blow it up a bit. Do you want a transfer? I could talk to some people here and see if they have any openings.


This is a bus stop, this one is actually a pretty modern bus, many of them look like they were built in the 50s. The guy walking in front of me is wearing a typical fur hat that almost everyone here wears.