Today we received our visas so we now have everything we need to get on the plane on Sunday. Below is our detailed schedule. We will very busy this trip!
8/5 - Sunday - We fly out of JFK at 4:30 PM EST
8/6 AM Monday - We arrive in Moscow at 10:10 AM (8 hour time difference); we will be hanging out in Moscow for the day waiting for our next flight
8/6 PM Monday- We depart for Novokuznetsk (Siberian Airlines) at 10:05pm.
8/7 - Tuesday - Arrive in Novokuznetsk at 6:10am. We will again stay at the Hotel Novokuznetskaya. (12 hour time difference).Today will be a rest and shopping day
8/8 - Wednesday - We get to visit with Scott today!
8/9 - Thursday - We drive 3 hours to Kemerovo City for our official Russian Court Date.We will spend the night at the Hotel Kuzbass.
8/10 - Friday - We do paperwork in Kemerovo City & drive back to Novokuztesk to pick up Scott out of the Baby Home!!
8/11 - Saturday - We depart Novokuznetsk at 7:40am and arrive back inMoscow at 8:05am.
We will be staying at the Marriott Courtyard. Either today or Sunday Scott will have his US Embassy Doctors's appointment.
8/13 - Monday - 8/14 TuesdayWe go to the US Embassy for our offical interview to bring Scott home; We pick up Scott's US Visa.; not sure how the timng of these 2 days will work
8/15 - Wednesday - We come home! Our flight departs Moscow at 12:15pam and arrives at JFK at 2:40 pm. As soon as Scott steps foot off the plane he is automatically a US Citizen!
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
One Week to Go....
We are done to the final countdown & we are exhausted. We spent a "family" day on Friday down at the Jersey shore with my parents. Erik had a great time at the ocean. This weekend we did not make any plans so we could get all the last minute stuff done as we know weekday nights not much gets done. We did go out last night with our friends Theresa & Phil to a Moroccan restaurant which was fun. They had a belly dancer there. Itwas it was a late night & we were drinking so this morning we were dragging.
I realized this weekend that I did not have any type of "lovey" for Scott so I picked up one of those soft cute bears with blanket this weekend. We are also still baby proofing & have taken donwn lots of baby stuff from the attic. I really wanted to finish Erik's Life Book this weekend but have done nothing on it. Ed has been super busy painting new doors we got, putting in a new door, distributing mulch & working on our Honda. Oh yeah we also found out on Friday that our Subaru needs a new transmission so we are without a 2nd car & have to pay for a new transmission. Lovely timing! We are in the process of looking for a Honda Pilot as the Honda had almost 200,000 miles but will not get it until we get back from Russia
Erik has been so good this weekend. I told him today it was a PJ day & he could stay in his PJs all day since we were not going anywhere (this is very rare for us). We also gave him an early Big Brother gift.. the Vtech Vsmile which I had picked up at a yard sale months ago. He loved it!
Please post Comments on our blog when we are in Russia. It is so nice to see every ones comments while we are over there
Off to do some packing & re-packing
I realized this weekend that I did not have any type of "lovey" for Scott so I picked up one of those soft cute bears with blanket this weekend. We are also still baby proofing & have taken donwn lots of baby stuff from the attic. I really wanted to finish Erik's Life Book this weekend but have done nothing on it. Ed has been super busy painting new doors we got, putting in a new door, distributing mulch & working on our Honda. Oh yeah we also found out on Friday that our Subaru needs a new transmission so we are without a 2nd car & have to pay for a new transmission. Lovely timing! We are in the process of looking for a Honda Pilot as the Honda had almost 200,000 miles but will not get it until we get back from Russia
Erik has been so good this weekend. I told him today it was a PJ day & he could stay in his PJs all day since we were not going anywhere (this is very rare for us). We also gave him an early Big Brother gift.. the Vtech Vsmile which I had picked up at a yard sale months ago. He loved it!
Please post Comments on our blog when we are in Russia. It is so nice to see every ones comments while we are over there
Off to do some packing & re-packing
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
11 More days
Even though we have been waiting a long 4 months to go back to Russia the last few days are flying. I have Scott's bag all packed & most of our stuff packed but we still need to figure out our clothes. Right now in Moscow & Siberia its in the 70's but I want to see what the weather forecast is closer to when we are ready to leave in case it gets cooler. We have to bring hat, jacket, pants, sweater etc for Scott regardless since Russias are very paranoid about children catching a cold.
We have decided not to have a big homecoming at the airport this time as JFK is such a pain. We are going to bring our car to the airport & drive ourselves home. Should be interesting getting to long term parking with Scott & then putting him in a carseat since they do not use carseats in Russia & Scott probably has never been in a car. We are giving an open invite for Aug 15th for everyone to come to our house to meet Scott. We really will need to limit visitors after this to aid in the attachment process & to not overwhelm him. Hopefully he will adjust fine but he will be going through so much in the next few weeks you just never know. Its so wild to think he is is Russia now & has no idea what is going to happen to him in 2 weeks....
We have decided not to have a big homecoming at the airport this time as JFK is such a pain. We are going to bring our car to the airport & drive ourselves home. Should be interesting getting to long term parking with Scott & then putting him in a carseat since they do not use carseats in Russia & Scott probably has never been in a car. We are giving an open invite for Aug 15th for everyone to come to our house to meet Scott. We really will need to limit visitors after this to aid in the attachment process & to not overwhelm him. Hopefully he will adjust fine but he will be going through so much in the next few weeks you just never know. Its so wild to think he is is Russia now & has no idea what is going to happen to him in 2 weeks....
Thursday, July 19, 2007
3 Weeks to Court!
Well the official countdown has begun! We fly out in less than 3 weeks & I only have 8 days left of work but I may need to take some time off before we leave. I will be taking 12 weeks FMLA off so I will be out of work until the end of October. Its really not enough time since 2 of those weeks are spent in Russia. We will have to see how Scott does. If needed Ed may need to also take some FMLA. Ed has been very busy at work which is making these last few weeks kind of hard as we have no time during the week to do anything. I am going to make a stop at Babies R Us over the next few days to get last minute items & to pick up a double stroller. We also have to finish baby proofing!
Erik seems to be understanding more that Scott will be here soon. It will be very interesting to see how they interact with each other.
Our first leg of the trip will be very exhausting. We fly out of JFK Sun night; get into Moscow Monday morning & then are hanging out our agency office for most of the day & hopefully sleeping a little & then we take a 10:30 flight out to Novokuztensk Monday night & get into the region 6:30 am Tues so basically we will be up for over 36 hours with no shower! We decided to do it this way as spending the night in Moscow is kind of a waste since the flight to the region is 10:30 at night & we would rather rest in the region for a day. We are not sure yet if we will get to see Scott on Tuesday or will need to wait until Wednesday. I will definitely be taking sleeping pills on the flight to Moscow!
Erik seems to be understanding more that Scott will be here soon. It will be very interesting to see how they interact with each other.
Our first leg of the trip will be very exhausting. We fly out of JFK Sun night; get into Moscow Monday morning & then are hanging out our agency office for most of the day & hopefully sleeping a little & then we take a 10:30 flight out to Novokuztensk Monday night & get into the region 6:30 am Tues so basically we will be up for over 36 hours with no shower! We decided to do it this way as spending the night in Moscow is kind of a waste since the flight to the region is 10:30 at night & we would rather rest in the region for a day. We are not sure yet if we will get to see Scott on Tuesday or will need to wait until Wednesday. I will definitely be taking sleeping pills on the flight to Moscow!
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Shopping & Nesting
We have been busy getting MORE documents ready, booking hotels, shopping for baby stuff & getting the house in order. We will be stayt at the Courtyard Marriot for the 4 nights in Moscow & we were able to stay with our points for free which is awesome as its about $400 a night. We also booked our flights. We get back August 15th!! I can;t believe Scott will be here in 6 weeks! One thing I am very nervous about is we found out our schedule while in region
Day 1 - fly into Novokuznetsk; visit Scott
Day 2 - Drive to Kemerovo City (3 hrs) Court; stay in Kemerovo City for the night
Day 3 - Get Passports & other official documents in Kemerovo City; drive back 3 hrs to Novo; pick up Scott!!
Day 4 - 6:30 am flight back to Moscow
So we will probably only be with Scott for about 12-14 hours before taking him on a 4 hour flight!! I am really hoping he does OK. I am happy though that our trip is only 10 days as these 2nd trips can get much longer.
Ed has been working on putting our new swing set up. Its going to be so great for the boys!
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