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Thursday, April 1, 2010

We are in Kaluga but No Internet

We made it into Moscow with no issues at all and finally arrived in Kaluga yesterday in the evening. Things have been smooth except that the model at the hotel has not worked and that we make a rookie mistake: we didn't check the recent weather and brought our big winter coats and boots and the weather is much better than on our trip 1, with temps in the high 30's and 40's. Oh well, a little rookie mistake but it's not a big deal.

Today we visited Nina twice and both visits were wonderful! He has grown a bit since the last time we saw her 2 months ago, but she is quite active now, is crawling, has 6 teeth, was babbling, blowing kisses and just being an adorable 11 months old! We also saw when they fed her dinner and she seemed to have a nice appetite, so there is the chance our somewhat picky eater may have a good eater to check out!

Tomorrow we have our court appearance at 2:30 pm and in the evening we will visit Nina again. If everything goes as planned, Saturday morning we will be driving to Moscow and fly back home. We can't wait to see Diego again, but my family reports that he is doing quite well and even the teeth grinding has disappeared! Hurray!

It's 10 pm and we are at the pub, where they have free Wifi. After checking 3 internet cafes with no internet, this place , which is 3 blocks from our hotel, was an awesome life saver! Keep us in your thoughts and hopefully tomorrow will be an amazing Good Friday for us and our family!

7 comments:

Angie and Curt said...

Try plugging the modem into every outlet in the room. I don't know why but some work and some don't. Also try plugging it in upside down. Sometimes that works. Crazy, I know.

Antoine & Lori said...

Happy to hear you arrived safely! Enjoy your time with Nina and good luck in court. Lori & Antoine

Amy, Jeff, LM, SC, & Ashton said...

great news and must be awesome to be back with your daughter! just think, 2 weeks from now you'll be on your final journey with diego in tow!! enjoy this trip!

Susan said...

So glad to hear Nina is doing well. Good luck at court tomorrow!!

Becky and Keith said...

Good luck tomorrow!! So glad you had a great trip!

Carolynn and Steve said...

So glad to hear that you're there---prayers for you for court tomorrow (just relax--it will be fine!)
Hugs from here!
Carolynn

Amy said...

Good luck tomorrow! I'm sure I'll be emailing you for details soon!

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