Travel Plans

We leave Monroe on the afternoon of the 11th of January to go get Anna Beth. We should be back home, flying into Jackson, on Saturday night the 23rd. We get to Arkhangelsk around noon on Wednesday the 13th, and should get Anna Beth around 10:00 Thursday morning the 14th. In Arkhangelsk, we should file paperwork on Friday the 15th, pick it up on Tuesday the 19th. We go to Moscow on the 20th do our paperwork there and home Sat. Hopefully everything will work out on that schedule.

A lot of our thoughts have been about what will we do for seven days in a hotel with her. Today the temp in Arkhangelsk was -36F. Not a lot to do outside in those temps. We have tried to find light weight games and toys (we only have 44 pounds of luggage a piece going in) that we can take with us. We have invested in a portable DVD player and a few hundred hours of dvds. We have playdoh, markers, colors and such. We just don't have anything that converts everything we say in English to come out as Russian. But we aren't the first to go thru this, and we won't be the last.

We have been in contact with a couple of other families that will be in Ark at the around the same time. We hope to try to get the kids together during the days to play and to make each families transitions a little easier.

Thanks to everybody for following along with us on this adventure. We pray everyday that God helps to prepare Anna Beth's heart and mind for this change, and ours too.