Playtime and Palaces

Today, Reagan was in a more serious mood so it took a lot more effort to make her smile, but we did it. She was much more focused on playing today instead of wanting to be held as much. She is smart too! We were showing her the small picture album we brought for her and she was looking at the picture of her room. We pointed to her bed, Igor told her the word in Russian, and then I told her “bed”. Afterwards, we could ask her, “Where’s your bed?” and she would point to it. Yippee!

Today, we officially signed and accepted the referral in front of the social worker. She commented that Reagan looks a lot like me and that I had finally found my child. It brought tears to my eyes (again!).

After our visit, we had to make a stop at the American Medical Clinic. I’ve been fighting a couple of medical issues while I’ve been here and couldn’t put it off any more. I couldn’t believe I could go and tell them the name of the antibiotic I needed and was able to purchase it without a prescription. And the price wasn’t much more than my normal co-pay at home. I couldn’t believe it!

I want to take advantage of every minute we have here so we kept our plans to meet up with the tour guide and go to two palaces in Pushkin. They were beautiful!

I just can’t seem to fit in here! Doug and I bit the bullet and did not wear tennis shoes today even though we were sightseeing. Wouldn’t you know I still was laughed at for wearing khaki pants and Doug for wearing a yellow shirt? I’m getting a complex about being pointed at! Good grief! For trip 2, maybe I should pack only black from head to toe!