Saturday, May 3, 2008

Russia Day 11

Our friend Nate's Food

Duane's yummy food!!!


My delicious meal!!!
My dessert. It was a lime outer coating with cream inside and a solid chunck of chocolate in the middle!!!!
This was Brandy's dessert!!!
Here we are in front of the big dinner plate.
Here Katie Aunna and I are playing in the awesome bathroom. There were sound effects of birds, bees, and FLIES buzzing. Also, sounds like a water fall!!!! This is Duane's salad!!! Pretty fancy and not a cheap meal either!!!!

Well, we have now been in Russia for a total of eleven days and it is dragging by. We are so anxious to get home with our girl and resume our life. However, we still have a long wait to see America the Beautiful!!! Katie Aunna is adjusting to us and the outside world very well. All her tummy issues have resolved and she is now on regular foods.

Yesterday we went to the grocery store!!! I managed to ask the butcher for ham slices (got a chunk instead...ha ha). We also bought some yummy cheese, bread, yogurt, and chocolate butter. That's right....chocolate butter!!! Aunna picked out delicious cookies and candy. I have given her these sparingly as I am concerned about her upsetting her tummy again. Duane had a horrible headache the day before yesterday and actually spent the day in bed with a cool towel on his face. There is some type of weird flu bug going around with headache and weakness. But, yesterday and today Papa and Katie are doing well.

Last night we went to a restaurant downtown. It was so cool!!! I forgot our camera, but, our friends brought theirs and took pictures of our beautiful plate of food. It was delicious. We must definitely return for another round there. I will post some pictures as soon as our friends give us the pictures they took. It was fine dinning in Russia.

Katie Aunna is doing very well. She loves her toys we brought with us and thank goodness Kisty insisted on packing them as Katie would be very bored without them. The slinky was a real surprise to her. She calls it "Sa-Lenky"!!! It was so cute as she lost "him" one day and went through the hotel room looking under everything and calling "Sa-Lenky...O....Sa-Lenky" and asking in Russian..."Where is Sa-Lenky?". Isn't that cute?!?! Ha Ha!!!!

Also, she found my Nintendo DS and is doing her best to acquire skill. She pushes the jump button and says "Boing-Boing-Boing" and for fireballs she makes a spit noise. My screen is covered!!! Kids...hide your Nintendo DS games!!!! Hey Casey....she points to your picture and calls you a name that I think she is saying Sashenka;-). Which is a loving male name for Sasha.

Today we are planning to walk down to the Russian Navy dock and so we will take some pictures and post them for you later this evening. The port looks very interesting and very early this morning a huge ship came into the dock. It is flying a Russian Navy flag so don't know if we will get arrested for taking pictures or not...ha ha. Just call us dumb Americans...ha ha!!!! Hopefully, it will be okay to take pictures here. Please contact our lawyer otherwise....JOKING!!! At worst I would imagine our camera will be taken or we will be required to erase the pictures.....I am certainly hoping that is the consequence;-). Maybe, Katie Aunna can translate for us!!!! Until the next post...many blessings and much love to you.

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