Well, after many hours of travel - we made it back to Russia!!
Andrew woke up super excited to start the voyage on Friday morning. After getting showers and eating breakfast, he went over to the neighbors house so we could get some things ready to celebrate Christmas when we get home :) He did really well on the short flight from Pittsburgh to NYC and was very excited to see BupBup & Grammy (Laurie's parents) when we got there (they had driven to New York earlier in the week and took in some shows/holiday sights for a few days).
After a fairly short lay-over in New York, we boarded the plane for Russia. Andrew insisted on sitting beside BupBup. He anxiously awaited the announcement that electronic devices could be used so that he could watch a movie on the iPad. Between watching a movie, eating dinner and playing games, that kept him pretty well occupied until he (finally) got tired. He asked to sit on his daddy's lap for a little bit and then on his mommy's lap where he actually fell asleep. It was after flying for about 5 1/2 hours (so it was 10:30pm home time) and he slept for 2 1/2 hours. He woke up when they turned the lights on for breakfast and was full of pep - jumping up and down in his seat giggling at silly little things (we think he was delirious). When we landed in Moscow he was very excited to see that there was snow on the ground. He did amazingly well on the flight and surpassed all of our expectations!!
Once we went through passport control, collected our bags, rechecked our bags and went through security in Moscow, we had about 3 hours until our flight to Perm. Andrew sat on a chair the entire time watching train videos on the iPad. Once we boarded our plane to Perm, the adults struggled to stay awake while Andrew played a train game on the iPad the entire 2 hour flight. He truly amazed all of us by being a wonderful traveler.
Once we arrived in Perm we were greeted by a surprised Val as he wasn't informed that there would be extra travelers - even though we made that very clear and were assured on several occasions that it wouldn't be a problem. So, as his car is not large enough to fit all of the people and our bags he had to make 2 trips - first with Laurie, Andrew and Grammy while John and BupBup waited at the airport. On the ride to the hotel, Val informed Laurie that we would be taking Baby Girl out of the baby home not on Monday but on Tuesday! As all can probably imagine, this was not taken very well as that is Christmas Day and Andrew's birthday. Laurie is attempting to get in touch with someone at the agency to get some answers and as you can imagine, emotions are high after being awake for pretty much 28 straight hours.
Our plan for tomorrow is to take a trip to the grocery store and then Val is picking us all up at 2:30 to visit an ice village in the center of Perm and then we are making a short visit to the baby home. Only we will be able to go inside for the visit, meaning Andrew, Grammy & BupBup will have to sit in the car (all bundled up from being outside) so we only plan to have a 30 minute visit - which is actually a surprise anyways because we were under the impression weekend visits didn't happen.
Anyways, more tomorrow as we are completely exhausted and off to bed!
Andrew woke up super excited to start the voyage on Friday morning. After getting showers and eating breakfast, he went over to the neighbors house so we could get some things ready to celebrate Christmas when we get home :) He did really well on the short flight from Pittsburgh to NYC and was very excited to see BupBup & Grammy (Laurie's parents) when we got there (they had driven to New York earlier in the week and took in some shows/holiday sights for a few days).
After a fairly short lay-over in New York, we boarded the plane for Russia. Andrew insisted on sitting beside BupBup. He anxiously awaited the announcement that electronic devices could be used so that he could watch a movie on the iPad. Between watching a movie, eating dinner and playing games, that kept him pretty well occupied until he (finally) got tired. He asked to sit on his daddy's lap for a little bit and then on his mommy's lap where he actually fell asleep. It was after flying for about 5 1/2 hours (so it was 10:30pm home time) and he slept for 2 1/2 hours. He woke up when they turned the lights on for breakfast and was full of pep - jumping up and down in his seat giggling at silly little things (we think he was delirious). When we landed in Moscow he was very excited to see that there was snow on the ground. He did amazingly well on the flight and surpassed all of our expectations!!
Once we went through passport control, collected our bags, rechecked our bags and went through security in Moscow, we had about 3 hours until our flight to Perm. Andrew sat on a chair the entire time watching train videos on the iPad. Once we boarded our plane to Perm, the adults struggled to stay awake while Andrew played a train game on the iPad the entire 2 hour flight. He truly amazed all of us by being a wonderful traveler.
Once we arrived in Perm we were greeted by a surprised Val as he wasn't informed that there would be extra travelers - even though we made that very clear and were assured on several occasions that it wouldn't be a problem. So, as his car is not large enough to fit all of the people and our bags he had to make 2 trips - first with Laurie, Andrew and Grammy while John and BupBup waited at the airport. On the ride to the hotel, Val informed Laurie that we would be taking Baby Girl out of the baby home not on Monday but on Tuesday! As all can probably imagine, this was not taken very well as that is Christmas Day and Andrew's birthday. Laurie is attempting to get in touch with someone at the agency to get some answers and as you can imagine, emotions are high after being awake for pretty much 28 straight hours.
Our plan for tomorrow is to take a trip to the grocery store and then Val is picking us all up at 2:30 to visit an ice village in the center of Perm and then we are making a short visit to the baby home. Only we will be able to go inside for the visit, meaning Andrew, Grammy & BupBup will have to sit in the car (all bundled up from being outside) so we only plan to have a 30 minute visit - which is actually a surprise anyways because we were under the impression weekend visits didn't happen.
Anyways, more tomorrow as we are completely exhausted and off to bed!
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