The Russian adoption process takes three usually seperate trips. We've got airline and hotel reservations for the first trip only now. The timing of the second and third trips depend on a number of things, starting with the speed of our paperwork preparation and ending with the speed of the Russian bureaucracy.
But we do know when we're going on the first trip:
We leave April 25, travelling on KLM via Amsterdam to St. Petersburg. We actually get into St. Petersburg on the 26th, then travel to Arkhangelsk and Kotlas on the 27th. We meet Elena in Kotlas for only one day: the 28th. I think the people in charge of the orphanage want to minimize the disruption in the children's routine, but a single day is kind of short, y'know?
Then we leave bright and early on the 29th back to St. Petersburg. We've got three days scheduled in St. Petersburg to internalize Russian culture for future reference, then we leave on May 3rd back to Detroit on Air France via Paris. Ah Paree.
We're on the left. Elena's on the right. She was in Russia. That's why we went.
Teresa, do you mean you leave April 25th or are you going next year?
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