Turkey Time

In less then two weeks it will be Thanksgiving. My favorite time of year except I can't stand the cold. Rich loves it, soon he will be skiing. What I love is cooking and having folks over to the house. Here is a picture from last year (everyone has their eyes open) and also one of Rich getting ready to ski the K-12.

I wish everyone could come and stay with us. I am not too sad about Bunny not being here because the holidays will just make the time we have to wait go by faster.

Another Small Step

We just found out that our dossier has been sent to the region of Kaliningrad.


Yes, it's still going to be a long wait for a referral but this is one more small step closer. And it makes the whole process seem more concrete knowing where our child will be from. So for the last couple of days we've been googling Kaliningrad to learn more about it. It's a pretty interesting place. I won't go into too many details because you guys can always do your own googling (strange how that's become a word in our language). However, there are two things I found to be interesting. First is that Kgrad is geographically separated from the rest of Russia. It's nestled between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea (click the map). I'm not sure what travel implications that may have on us because technically we'll have to travel in and out of Russia to get to Moscow. Hmmmm? Second, Kgrad was actually a German territory until WWII when it was annexed by the Soviets.

So that's really the only new news we have.

Beautiful Russian Artwork

http://www.paintingofrussia.com/

Looking at the pictures on the web-site (above link) I wish I had the extra funds to buy one or more of these works of art. Maybe someday. The white Bunny Rabbit is so sweet. "Bunny" is the temporary name we have given the child we will be adopting. Mainly because we don't know their sex. Chances are a little boy will be coming home with us and if so the blue sky color in the first painting called "Easter Moscow" would be great for his new room. Last painting is called "Red Angels" and I just love it. Not sure how the service is for this gallery but love the art.