Tasha's visa is done

Two days to update you on. Yesterday was a total at home day. What this meant is that we were feeling a bit suffocated, especially Jacki who has to do most everything for Tasha. She wound up going out with Ryan for a couple hours doing this giant ice slide kids love to do out here.

Today was the big day. US Embassy day. After a long but fairly pleasant visit at the embassy, we left with a visa attched to Tasha's Russian passport. The visa type and associated docs means that when she lands in Boston and goes through Immigration, she'll be a US citizen. We were warned today that she will remain a Russian citizen as well and at some point will need to renounce that citizenship if she ever wants to freely travel to Russia after the age of 18. Otherwise she could be detained and held. Some adopted boy came back recently to visit his grandmother after 18, got stopped at the border, and was enlisted in the army! (Mandatory for all men) Yikes.

Another interesting display of driving by Vitali causing another barfing session (I'd think that with the fancy BMW he'd try to limit the puking but he does enjoy his aggressive driving style), and we were on our way to get the infant plane ticket. With a little wrinkle/complication it was finally done. Back to the apartment and now my turn for the ice slide. I took some Flip videos that I hope turned out great and will post later. Don't understand why this hasn't made it to the states. Blows sledding right out of the water.

Time for early bed. Tasha decided not to sleep very well last night babbling and playing, even with a missed nap during the day. Jacki and I are very tired. Ryan got the best deal. His own room on a very comfortable couch. Jacki offered him $100 to sleep on it tonight and he didn't even think about it. He said "No Way!" :)

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