Well, it's Friday morning finally!! Last night was nuts, but it's finally here. A call to the airport has confirmed that all flights are on as scheduled. We are a nervous wreck. The day that we thought would never come is here. In 2 short days we will be meeting our little boy for the first time.
We are going to be leaving for the airport in a bit and I probably won't have access to a computer until I come home to do anykind of posting. Never fear though. I will have pictures and hopefully happy happy stories when we return home on June 4th.
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We love you all!!!!
Kim and Michael
Monday, November 27, 2006
What a storm!!! 5/27/04
Well, this has been an interesting week to say the least. We found out on Tuesday that the terminal we are supposed to fly into at Charles de Gaul airport in Paris has collapsed. We will still be landing there but all traffic from that terminal is being rerouted through other terminals. We only have 45 minutes to change planes to begin with. This is making me terribly nervous. This will only make 2 times that I've ever flown.
Tonight a terrible storm came through. We were lucky and didn't have any damage to our place but Eminence didn't fair so well. A tornado touched down there and pretty much tore the little city to pieces. Luckily no one was hurt too bad. Evidently there were aweful storms all over the place, so first thing in the morning I have to call the airport in Louisville and make sure that all flights are on schedule. Michael decided that since it wasn't bad here that he would try to go into work. That was his plan all along and at the time he was supposed to go to work we didn't know just how bad Eminence was. He was going to work all night and then hopefully be able to sleep on the plane to help ease the jet lag some.
He called me when he got to New Castle and said that there we trees down and whatnot, but nothing to terrible. He ventured on closer to Eminence and the closer he got the worse it got. He came to a standstill right outside of Eminence near Rose Hill Florist. Apparantly no one was getting in or out in that direction. He sat there in traffic for about 35 minutes and finally got turned around and headed back out of town. He decided to try going down Herndon Lane and go in the back way. Still no luck. They told him at the crossroads that Eminence was officially a disaster area and they weren't letting anyone in and to just go home.
Needless to say it was almost 2am before he made it back home. We watched on the news and were praying that this wasn't a sign of things to come.
Tonight a terrible storm came through. We were lucky and didn't have any damage to our place but Eminence didn't fair so well. A tornado touched down there and pretty much tore the little city to pieces. Luckily no one was hurt too bad. Evidently there were aweful storms all over the place, so first thing in the morning I have to call the airport in Louisville and make sure that all flights are on schedule. Michael decided that since it wasn't bad here that he would try to go into work. That was his plan all along and at the time he was supposed to go to work we didn't know just how bad Eminence was. He was going to work all night and then hopefully be able to sleep on the plane to help ease the jet lag some.
He called me when he got to New Castle and said that there we trees down and whatnot, but nothing to terrible. He ventured on closer to Eminence and the closer he got the worse it got. He came to a standstill right outside of Eminence near Rose Hill Florist. Apparantly no one was getting in or out in that direction. He sat there in traffic for about 35 minutes and finally got turned around and headed back out of town. He decided to try going down Herndon Lane and go in the back way. Still no luck. They told him at the crossroads that Eminence was officially a disaster area and they weren't letting anyone in and to just go home.
Needless to say it was almost 2am before he made it back home. We watched on the news and were praying that this wasn't a sign of things to come.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
All is a go 5/24/04
Well, we sat down and made our hotel reservations on Saturday. AAi gave us a list of hotels that are close to the US Embassy. We got to choose pretty much between the Marriott, The Marriott Grand and The Radisson. After much surfing we decided on The Radisson. We're going to have to take out a 2nd on the house by the time this is said and done. The rooms in Moscow at The Radisson are 289.00/night US dollars. Let me tell ya that's cheap compared to the Marriott. We are going to be spending 3 nights in Moscow and 4 nights in Stavropol. We can only hope that the plane tickets and accomodations in Stavropol aren't quite so pricey. It'll all be more than worth it, but we're in "sticker shock". LOL
Once we arrive in Moscow, our translator will have our plane tickets to Stavropol and our translator in Stavropol will have already made our hotel reservations there. This is how are week is going to play out according to AAi.
Friday-We will be flying out of Louisville and going to Cincinnati. Don't ask it was for some unknown reason cheaper to make several stops than to fly straight through. Go figure. Once in Cincinnati we will hang out at the airport for 3 hours before getting to board the plane for Paris. Yes that's right I said Paris. We will be stopping in the city of love on our way to meet our son. After a quick 45 minute layover and plane change in Paris we will be on the last leg of our flight to Moscow. We should arrive God willing at 11:00am on Saturday. Moscow is 8 hours ahead of us so we will be loosing a day on the way over. We will spend one night in Moscow and leave Sunday afternoon for Stavropol. On Monday we will go to the orphanage and meet our son for the first time. We will fly back to Moscow on Wednesday do sight seeing in Moscow on Thursday and fly home bright and early Friday. It's going to be a crazy but totally exciting week. We are soooooo excited and nervous. We can't hardly stand the anticipation.
This is going to be the longest week ever.
Once we arrive in Moscow, our translator will have our plane tickets to Stavropol and our translator in Stavropol will have already made our hotel reservations there. This is how are week is going to play out according to AAi.
Friday-We will be flying out of Louisville and going to Cincinnati. Don't ask it was for some unknown reason cheaper to make several stops than to fly straight through. Go figure. Once in Cincinnati we will hang out at the airport for 3 hours before getting to board the plane for Paris. Yes that's right I said Paris. We will be stopping in the city of love on our way to meet our son. After a quick 45 minute layover and plane change in Paris we will be on the last leg of our flight to Moscow. We should arrive God willing at 11:00am on Saturday. Moscow is 8 hours ahead of us so we will be loosing a day on the way over. We will spend one night in Moscow and leave Sunday afternoon for Stavropol. On Monday we will go to the orphanage and meet our son for the first time. We will fly back to Moscow on Wednesday do sight seeing in Moscow on Thursday and fly home bright and early Friday. It's going to be a crazy but totally exciting week. We are soooooo excited and nervous. We can't hardly stand the anticipation.
This is going to be the longest week ever.
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