November 6, 2004

Day 10
I forgot to mention last night that Frank had a big night out. He went with another American and his interpreter to the local university to play some basketball. I don't know the name of the University but Frank is referring to it as K-State. I think they had fun. Also, about yesterday's Pizza outing. It was pretty good. They served mayo and katsup on the side. That was interesting. Frank was hoping that they would have chicken wings. That made me laugh.

Today when we arrived at the babyhouse they really had Todd dressed like a girl. I made sure to get a couple of pictures as I suspect I will be needing them down the road for black mail. Per your request, Morgan, I am posting a picture of the 4 of us. The first one is without Rachel. She was protesting the picture so I had the interpreter tell her that's OK. We would just do the picture without her since she didn't want to join us . She didn't like that at all -nearly cried. So, she finally decided to join us. I'll post more later.

I think we are going to have "date night" tonight and go out to a nice dinner by ourselves. We are going to take our Russian Phrase Book along and am sure we will make complete idiots of ourselves, but at this point we are used to that.
Good evening. Good visit. Lots of play time. I should mention that the evening visits seem to be a bit overstimulating for Rachel. With all of the parents, interpreters and children it equals about 20 people. It tires out Todd as well. Anyway they ( and we) had fun playing this evening. The last few visits we have noticed that they have been interacting with one another a little bit more.
Frank and I had a nice dinner tonight. It with our first dinner outside of the hotel alone without our interpreter.