Thursday, February 26, 2009

On to the Orphanage












We headed out on Wednesday morning for a four hour van ride. The road was very bumpy and there no restaurants on the way. Very few toilets either!!!Scott got to experience a Russian out house!!!!Too funny...Two boards on either side and a hole in the middle.....He got a whole new impression of Russia. It is cold and flat. There is not much to the landscape but snow and birch trees. The Russian people are not real tolerant of Americans....although you find some really nice ones that are really helpful and a lot of fun. The area of Kuibyshev is very depressed. Most people walk around town.....A few restaurants....very different from America.
We met our little guy Alex and what an adventure that was! He was very unsure of the situation until Scott offered him a ball. It only took him minutes to warm up to us and he would go from lap to lap. It was incredible! Leaving was the hardest part. In just two short visits he got that we were there to see him. He did not want us to leave and his eyes were sad when we were picking up! We just want to come back and take him home!

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