Four Days Until We Fly To Moscow

Smoke from the fireworks last night.
HRH Katie Aunna Gartner watching The Bee Movie!!!
Katie Aunna watching her movie.
Katie Aunna writes her name (with my help) in English.
The big oil tanker passing through the harbor of Murmansk.

We are anxiously counting the days down until we fly out to Moscow. It is planned that we will leave for Moscow on Wednesday. Guess we will see how the paperwork flows. I would imagine we are in the home stretch now. Let me say it has been a marathon!!! Today we talked with the facilitator and he has every thing planned out. Now we will pray God allows everything to fall into place.

This morning a huge oil tanker moved through the harbor and I took a few pictures from our hotel window. It was running on empty so we got a very good picture of it's full view. It was a very pretty sight to see it gracefully moving through the harbor. I hope you enjoy the picture I am posting. Also, the picture of the smoke is from the fireworks last night that were shot off to celebrate the Russian Holiday.

Funny thing is it never gets dark, but we were able to see the aerials were red flowering bursts in the blue night sky. Another picture above is of Katie Aunna studiously writing her name. I showed her how and she was able to make the letters by my example. She is quite a smart little girl;-). Duane says I sound just like a proud new mother...ha ha.

The weather here is much like ours in New Mexico...hot one day and cold the next. The big difference is the snow. It has spit snow today and been very windy in the morning. Then late this afternoon it warmed up and all signs of snow are gone!!! There have been days when it is not windy and those days are fairly tolerable. The wind is the factor which brings the "real feel" of the temperature down.

Last night Katie Aunna really wanted to watch "The Bee Movie". I have posted a few picture of HRH Katie Aunna. She has a bag of potato chips and a glass of apple juice watching her new movie. She was so quite that it was almost like she was sleeping...ha ha. Her English continues to improve and today she actually used a three word sentence..."Papa, you hush!" You might know her first sentence would be sassing us. At any rate, we are thankful to have her and anxiously looking forward to getting into Moscow next week. I imagine we will be fairly busy on Tuesday and Wednesday. We will keep you posted.