Saturday, March 18, 2006

Flights Booked, Leaving March 31st

Happy St. Patty's day! We finally booked our flights and received our tickets to travel March 31st. We will leave out of Boston to Frankfurt, Germany (6.5 hrs), Frankfurt to Almaty, Kazakhstan (KZ) (6.25 hrs), then Almaty to Ust-Kamenogorsk, KZ (2.5 hrs.) where we'll be adopting. Almaty, KZ is a main city and Ust-Kamenogorsk is located in the northeastern part of KZ near the Altai Mtns. where it says Oskemen. See KZ map below. We'll have layovers in each city so we will be traveling from Friday to Sunday. When we finally get there on Sunday, an escort/translator will bring us to the apartment where we will be staying. On Monday, hopefully we will go to the orphanage and meet our child!! There is so much to do before we leave in two weeks but we're SOOOO excited that we are FINALLY going. It doesn't seem real after running around and waiting for a year and now it's only 2 weeks away. Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.....