Hello,

We found out a few days ago that our New York contact for our agency is leaving. Today is her last day. In reality, this does not affect us as we have always delt with the main office in St. Louis directly. Still no word on anything.

Cathy and I are still working on our letter to the superintendent of our school district. We are going to request our FMLA leave and child rearing at this time.

Till next time.

Also forgot to add that the hotel we will be staying at in region is called the Best Eastern Osnabruck.

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Enjoy!

Hello,

Our agency now has everything they need except updated medicals and a psychiatrist letter. These items we will complete closer to our first trip.

On friday 10/21 I started the first round of Hepatitis B vacinations. This is a serious of 3 shots spaced one month apart. I will start Hep A and continue with B next month. Cathy will start the shots as well next month.

Pretty much we will be in a holding pattern now. My thoughts are if we do not travel in Nov. early Dec. then it will be sometime in the early part of the new year.

Till next time.

Scott

We started working with our union representative for Child Rearing and FMLA requests, today. Also, we notarized our last document for awhile. We plan on sending out the last paperwork tomorrow alongwith our passports, so we will be ready to go on the first trip when called. My best man and closest friend Noel, alongwith his wife Anna, offered to give us their air miles to use for one of our trips. That is a gracious gift and one that will not be forgotten.

This is probably all the news we have right now. Till next time.

Well I made another trip today to get some documents Apostilled. I am hoping these are the last two documents that need to be redone. This is getting kind of old. Now Cathy and I need to fill out our Russian Visa Applications and send in our passports to CHI. Bob, Cathys dad is planning on attending, the only negative thing is the agency is charging a fee to have him come along. He is planning on only going on the first trip.

Well till next time.

Well Cathy and I had been running around to get all our paperwork Apostilled and Notarized in the summer. We submitted our Dossier to our agency Childrens Hope International, in early Sept. We really thought things were moving now, until we got a call from our agency.

This call stated that the translators in our region "Tver" in Russia noticed that our social worker had put the wrong address on all of our documents that she generated. Of course this sets us back and costs us $$. Cathy and I contacted our S/W and had her redo the docs and send them to us. We then notarized them and apostilled them and sent them on their way. No sooner did we send the redone docs out, then we had to redo two more. I plan on getting them Apostilled and Notarized and in the over night mail this weekend.

We have been studying the Russian Alphabet and trying to learn some words. Apparently we are #6 in line, 5 other families are in front of us. As of today, our agency contact has said everything is ago.

The only thing that bothers me right now, is the debate weather to bury Lenin or not. I do not know if any of you reading this are aware, but Lenin has been lying in state for 81 years. Currently the DUMA (read Russian Congress) are split as to weather officially bury him or keep him on public display in the tomb located in Red Square. I personally do not have a preferance, but many powerful leaders of the DUMA have said if they try to bury him, a civil war will break out. Of course I do not want that, so I am for leaving him right where he is for at least another year. The Russian government forks out 1.5 million Rubles to maintain him, his tomb and guards.

Until another update. Take care. Scott