We're really here!

And, what, you may wonder, is Leah looking at??

Hey, Owen - this sure isn't the way we do it back in Minnesota, is it?? Even better, there's a guy IN the little loader that gets to ride while it's being lifted up!!! (The cathedral in the background of the photo of Leah was just a convenient reason to get a photo of THIS!)

Today we're tired, and recovering from a very boring flight. As a matter of face, we're hoping the rest of the trip is just as boring as this first part was so far (with the exception of the loader-lifter!)

Tomorrow we have a day to walk around the (cold and snowy) city a bit more, rest a bit more, and shuffle our belongings around a bit to be ready for Monday morning when, bright and early, we leave to go get our girls!!! No more will they belong at state-run institutions where they don't belong to anyone - they will be with us!!! with their family that they belong to. My Dad pointed out that it's fitting that we're on the sixth floor of our hotel - Tsvetomira will leave the infamous sixth floor of the orphanage she has spent her whole life in, and move to the sixth floor of a hotel with her mommy on her way home to her HOME.