Wednesday, May 27, 2009

We Are SO Out of Here

We finished everything that needs to be done here! We changed our flights to go home a day early. Thank God for Golden Rule Travel!!
This morning we had our Visa Interview at the Embassy. Very interesting. You go into the building with your official papers. No phones, cameras, etc... And no going out once you come in. We had a paper "invitation". We go to window #4 to pay then sit and wait for our turn. There were 2 other families there also, one with an almost 2 year old ball of adorableness, and another with 2 beautiful girls age 6 and 10. We got sit and talk for a while, it was nice. So once you have your interview, which consists of verifying info pretty much, then you sit back down for about 10 minutes. Anastasia had to go potty. We come out of the potty and everyone is staring at me. I look at Gary and ask him "what?" His response, "you don't want to know"
Then the mother of the almost 2 year old comes running up from behind she says, "I couldn't catch him, I yelled his name but he couldn't hear me, and I was not allowed to go out."
Then Gary tells me, "we all went up to the window to get our paperwork, (which is many official papers plus the child's passport and visa). He said, "they gave that other guy with the 2 girls our Anastasia's paperwork and us their Anastasia's" The other guy had gone first and walked out, Gary walked up to the window took the papers, looked down, and said, this is the wrong one! Upon hearing this the other mom jumped up and tried to run after the guy. So I guess what happened was the Embassy people called the guy's coordinator and told them about the mistake, went outside and switched the paperwork.
All is good, just another story to tell. But really if you could see the papers we had to fill out to get that paperwork done, and how specific we had to be, and that can't read the first and last names!!!
Right now it is 7 pm, our driver comes to get us a little after 3 am, and drives us to the Moscow airport, We cannot wait to get home, get her to America, and be back with our boys, we have never been away from them this long.

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