Wednesday, July 1st

Today, we brought the apples and bananas we bought at the market to Maigul. We brought 12 big apples, 1 for each of the children in his group and also a small bunch of bananas. The apples cost $10, can't remember how much the bananas cost. When Roman saw the apples, he refused to come in the visiting room. Maigul ended up giving him one of each so that he would come see us. He gobbled up the banana and started on the apple, Galina told him to not eat it all or he would get a stomach ache, so he ate half and we put it out of the way. He started playing and getting too rambunctious with some somersaults and must have had a pain, he came right to me for comforting and let out a belch! We brought balloons to blow up, but they lost his interest pretty quickly. He is mostly interested in balls and cars. We ended up going outside for a little bit and he interacted with one of the kids from the 'other group'. Although he doesn't have any special friends, I've seen him be really sweet with this child. Roman is pretty darn smart, he knows this child is not a threat to him and it's okay for us to be there.



After our visit, we went back to our hotel and finished watching 'John Adams' that a friend lent us. It was really good, I highly recommend it. We took naps and then around dinner time walked about 15 minutes to the American Bar on Kuneav (sp?) street to meet the other adoptive mom and her mother for dinner. They have a great menu, mostly American type food, this is the 2nd time we ate there. This time I ordered the chicken fingers and fries...very tasty! We all got a ride back to the hotel from one of the drivers.