Today is Saturday. We went for a walk by the Kremlin this morning. I bought a Mountain Dew and Andi drank a Pepsi. We then ate an ice cream bar we purchased from a street vender. We looked at each other and decided that we are completely bored. There are three American couples here adopting. They all have their children and are leaving in the next week or so. The whole bunch of us went to a restaurant called “The Academy of Beer” for lunch. It was very clean and the food was fairly good. We walked in as this bunch of loud Americans with strollers and language barriers and low blood sugar confirming several stereotypes for the Russians trying to eat lunch. It was great. We went to see Lilia at 4pm (7am in the States). We were walking into the orphanage and a caregiver was walking out with children under each arm, while pushing a stroller, and carrying a walker. We helped her get out the door and then realized Lilia was one of the kids in the stroller. She lit up when she saw Andi and reached out for her, it was a tear jerker moment. It was pretty symbolic watching Andi lift Lilia out from among this group of orphaned children. Well we had planned to eat in the room tonight, but Andi just plugged our hot pot into the wall without the converter, poof no more hot pot. So we will walk somewhere and eat a most unsatisfying meal.
Till we write again.
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