Sept 13 Saturday- 8:45 am. Weather has been very nice - sunny and warm, probably gets to 30 C every day, then cools at night. Perfect, actually! (sorry to everyone in Canada who are NOT having a nice September)...
Hi everyone! Hope you're having a good start to the weekend! Yesterday (Friday) we were not allowed to visit Angelique, not sure why - we were told it was because they were filming another documentary at the orphange, but another couple was told it was because there was an inspection at the orphange, so we're not sure which, if either is true. But it sucked to not see her!
Still no decision on the apartment- as of this morning there is still no hot water - we have another apartment tentatively lined up for Monday, only a few blocks away, but we're still hoping that somehow the water comes back before then. We'd really rather stay here- moving would be a pain and we're now used to the location and comfortable in this place. The electrical issues (power outages etc) seem to be tied up with the construction behind the building, same as the water issues. According to 'the city contact' (?) that our coordinator called, it should only be 1-2 more days, but they've been saying that since last Monday. Hmmm...
On Friday we walked around the Green market (tons of small booths with everything under the sun), and both napped in the afternoon/early evening. Long day when we don't have a visit..... we're trying to be patient - a few more days then she's ours ours OURS!!
Today we'll get ready for our visit this afternoon, and we have to get copies of our passports so we'll look for a place to do that - we think there's one close by. We also want to pick up some coffee - there are 2 fancy places on our street (one called Coffeedelia, other called Tea and Coffee Garden), so we'll check those out. We brought some Starbucks from home but we're going through it faster than we did last trip, probably because it's not as hot here now.
Kazakhstan isn't a big coffee country, like most Asian countries they mostly drink tea here. But we've read in the books that westerners have been introducing 'fancy coffee' to KZ in the last few years and it's starting to catch on, especially in the bigger cities like Almaty - so we'll check it out and let you know!
Have a great weekend!
take care
P&N
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I hope your hot water problem will be solved soon. I can't imagine what's taking them so long to fix the problem. I hope you'll get to see your Angelique soon... that's too bad that you missed another visit. It wouldn't be so bad if she could be told that you aren't coming today but they don't inform the child by what I've experienced. Just a few more rough bumps to add to this process before you're together.
hello my dears
hope you found coffee... it is a staple for sure... we had a glorius day yesterday... went out for supper with all of the aunt's for Aunty ella's b'day. on the 13th, everyone was asking about you and said to let you know they are thinking of you guys and wishing you a speedy and smooth (as smooth as possible) return home... let us concentrate ont hat thought for a while
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