Fun Day!

Today we were able to spend the morning with Amy's good friends Dad who just happened to be traveling through Krasnoyarsk! He is traveling with a missions team, so we were able to meet his team and spend some time with them. It was so encouraging to be around fellow believers and English speakers! Such a small world.



After our visit with him we went to the orphanage. She did not cry when she saw us and she eagerly came to me. She also warmed up to Ryan right away. We spent the first hour playing inside the playroom then bundled her up to take her outside. At first she did not want to walk on her own, she just wanted to be held by us. Then she went to just wanting me to hold her, then she went to wanting nothing to do with either of us and only wanted to be on her own. We are not sure if she was getting tired or hungry or just plain sick of us! We realized we are constantly in her face for the whole 2 hours and she was probably wanting us to back off:-)

We are not able to visit her over the weekend so we are trying to set up things to keep us busy. Tomorrow our facilitator is taking us to the bobsled run place that was on the show "Amazing Race" when they came to Krasnoyarsk this season. We are super excited to try that! On Sunday we have found a local church that we are going to go visit during their service.

We are hoping Anna does not forget us over the weekend and we have to start all over again with getting her used to us. We are still unsure of when our "Gotcha day" will be (the day we can take her out of the orphanage). Because of a Russian holiday coming up next Friday we may have to wait until the following Monday. We are praying we will not have to wait and that we can have her with us by next weekend so she can get more used to us before we take her on the plane to Moscow.

We'll post pics from the bobsled run tomorrow!




Picture of a man ice fishing this morning on the river