Day 10

Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Today was quite a long and productive day for Natalia. She had to take a taxi back and forth a couple of times to the birthplace of the girls so that she could get the separation documents notarized, processed, and filed.
While she was gone, we went and hung out with the girls at the orphanage. We did not see Aylona today. The amount of children here is heartbreaking. There are 203 kids, ranging from ages 3 to 16. They are all very curious about us and stare a lot before being ushered away by one of the caretakers.
We met Irina, who is here to pick up her son after her 10 day waiting period. She is from Russia, and her little boy is just a doll! We had dinner at a place called “Eden” with Natalia, Irina, and her facilitator, Sergei. It was a nice place with decent food, and they had one English menu that helped quite a bit.