Monday. Today is June 2nd. Again, it is a down day for us as we don't get to see Ellie and we are concerned because she was not feeling well yesterday. Maria called Aliya, our interpreter, and told her of our concerns. We were hanging out in the room, trying to figure out what we were going to do today, when we realized that is was now 11AM and Joshua was still asleep. We finally roused him, got him a shower, and decided to go souvenir shopping. We strolled over to an Italian restaurant recommended by one of Maria's friends from the adoption group. Let me tell you - it was the best Italian food I have had in a while. This place beat the other Italian restaurant hands down. I believe this place is called The Cyclone. After eating, we headed to ZSUM, a 5-story department store. This place is the BETA Store on speed. One thing we have noticed over here is that people will run over you if you stop and they are very rude to you as a foreigner. I hope that I am not seen like this back home. And if I were in the past, being over here has made me realize that I need to be more cognizant of the people that are around me, whether I know them or not.
We picked up several souvenirs for Ellie's room so she will have a little bit of her heritage with her. Josh got himself a horse's whip and some postcards. After shopping for an hour, it was time to make our way back to the room. This involved about a one and one-half mile walk. Be mindful, other than our trips to the orphanage in Tokmok, we walk everywhere over here. Fortunately, they were changing the guards at the area next to the White House and we got to observe the guards doing the traditional Russian high step. If we venture out again, I would like to have the camcorder to video it. We made it back to the room around 5PM. It was lights out for all of us at 9PM as we were tired from today's events and we needed to be ready at 8:20 tomorrow to go sign some papers.
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