14 February 2007
It's official! We just returned to the hotel after our court appearance. Thankfully everything went as planned.....we are now officially parents to Andrew Hale Williams :) Unfortunately, we are not able to see him today because of his nap schedule and the availability of our translater Elena. We will be returning to Moscow mid March to take him home.
At the court hearing, the orphanage director gave us his Russian Orthodox Christian baptismal certificate - we will also ask for the cross that was given to him at the baptism on our next visit.
Now we are off to see some more underground rail stations and then to the Kremlin ballet tonight. It will be an early night as our driver will be picking us up at 0430 hours for our flight to Paris, and then on to Boston. Hope the weather cooperates with our travel plans!
We are both very excited and consider ourselves very lucky - what a great Valentine's day gift!
Love to all,
Scott and Lisa