Sunday

We all headed to church on Sunday.  Marina, Ivan, Anya and I just attended the last two hours.  We had an interpreter come and talk about the Ukraine in primary and the children were able to ask the kids questions.  I think it was fun for them to be in the spot light.  We slipped into the last little bit of YW because they wanted to talk to Marina.
Well, isn't that a happy looking group.  Kidding, we were happy.  Troy had to pick up some documents from the office and so we took all the kids to his work to check out his building.  We went through the museum parts and then ate all the rest of the ice cream in the ice cream machine.  

We dropped Troy home to pack for his flight to NYC and I took the kids to Grandma's house.  They were so wound up, they ran and played on everything in the back yard.  Then it got dark and they came in and played with everything in the basement.  Mike and Melissa, who are grandma's neighbors who were adopted from Russia, came over to visit for a bit.  Melissa seemed to know a handful of words in Russian and tried to talk to the kids, but they were playing air hockey and you could hardly hear anything going on.  So I chatted with her for a bit.  She remembers some of her time in the orphanage in Russia and so we talked about that and her brothers and sisters who are still over there.  It was interesting to hear her points of view, she was terribly sad that the children had to go back and that they couldn't stay here.