Another sunny day in munchkinland

I am enjoying my visits with Vanya but I really miss the other boys. I will be counting the hours until I can go and get them. Last night babushka and I went to the Pow wow pizza place with some of the friends we have met here. This time we were 10 people. I'm sure the restaurant now cringes when they see us coming. "Oh no, not the loud crazy American, Israeli, Italian people that want the english menus, Agghhhhh!" It was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed being able to talk about our kids and our journey and such. It is amazing who God puts in your path and for what purpose. All of the other adoptive parents we have met are christians and we hope that we have been a good example to teh others around us of what that really means. I really hope that even though there is a language barrier that others will be able to see Christ in us and not just think we are those people with the insincere smiles. We are going to try to find a church a friend of ours recommended to go to tomorrow. That would be great. I really miss knowing I am amoungst other believers. There are some here but you might not be able to readily tell.
We had an interesting situation at our apartment. The woman below us had come up to the door and I opened it but wasn't really sure why since I knew I was not going to understand her. She was saying something aobut the water and Iwasn't sure if she was mad or just upset. We had offered for some frined to do laundry at our place and we had already loaded the washer. Good thing we had Roman wait for us to go to dinner. We went out and had him come talk to the lady and then try to tell us what she said. Evidently all of our toilet and tub water was empying into her bathtub. It was really gross. She had a whole in one her pipes and had asked that we not use the water for a while. She was probably about 70 years old and was crying when she was talking to us. Poor thing. We kept telling her it was OK and we would just wait. When we came back from dinner we checked on her and everything was fine. We thought we were going to be the no bathing, no clothes wearing, no toothbrushing, no toilet using Americans from upstairs. Thank goodness babushka was feeling much better by the evening.
Will keep everyone updates as to our progress. Starting to hunt for the ruby slippers.

Laura and babushka