Thursday night

We visited Lexi for the last time at the orphanage today.  We actually got to take her (with supervision) to get her passport photo taken and then back to the playground at the orphanage.  She did great in the car and was very intrigued by everything around us.  Our coordinator and driver are busy with another family tomorrow and we're going to do some preparing for Lexi so we won't go to the orphanage, but they said be ready by 9am on Saturday with clothes!  I can't believe its almost here.  

The 10 days has gone much faster than I thought.  It's helped having so many Americans here.  10 of us went to dinner together tonight at Mama Roma's, the local Italian joint.  It's always an experience eating out b/c you never know if the server is going to understand you.  Luckily Mama Roma's menu has pictures for us, so we can point.  It also has everything listed with its Italian name, then Russian name, and then English name. You get really excited if a restaurant has an English menu!  What I wouldn't give for some chips and salsa though.  There's lots of Italian here and obviously Russian.  There's also a German restaurant that we tried and there seems to be lots of sushi bars which we did not try :) But apparently Mexican food has not made it here yet. The coordinator in Moscow said "Taco Bell" when we mentioned Mexican food so its really not here yet.  And now that I've rambled on, I'm going to quit and go to bed!