June 21 (Kaz)

June 21

Today was an uber exciting visit at the baby house, Andrew fell asleep on me after about 15 minutes of crawling around. The care givers were not happy with that, becuase that means he does not nap at nap time. Oh well, our days in Astana are numbered and then we are off to Almaty for a week of more paperwork.

After the visit we went to the Gross supermarket to go food shopping. I'm not sure if Andrew has any allergies because he has only eaten mashed potatoes with a little meat, porridge and soup. So I played it safe and got the hypo-allergenic german food. Unfortunately the only meat they had was Rabbit With Fennel. Mmmmm, Mmmmm good. You can bet I won't dig into his food.

This little stuffed animal showed up on the sofa at the orphanage today. It looks oddly happy, yet a bit disturbing.








I was getting ready to pack and went through the clothes I bought here. Way back in the beginning it was cold outside and I had to buy sweat pants for Junior. Good Golly these are ugly. They are now a donation for the next generation of kids at the orphanage.






We went out to dinner tonight to an Italian place near us. The food is pretty good, and it's Air Conditioned. The menu is in English and Russian, but some of the translations are a bit odd, like #12 Lasagna and #26 Apices of Asparagus (I think.)








And here is the tasty Vitamin Salad I had. I think it was cabbage and carrots. It was surprisingly good.









These are the people we had dinner with. Maggie and Bryan are on the right....they are from Iowa and are naturally beautiful and really nice people. Ross and Karen are on the end....they are from Illinios and went into shock the first dinner we had when they found out how long they would be here. Natalie is on the left in the front....she is elated to be leaving soon.




We saw these kitties at the mall. They look like out kitties, but will not pee all over once Enrdu arrives home.










We cleaned out the fridge; we had this ketchup from our French Fry Feast. This little bottle of Heinz came a long way for our feast.