Some little facts about our trip:

• Moscow is 9 hours ahead from where we are now.
• Vladivostok is 7 hours ahead from Moscow.
• Russia is really big.
• Our trip will be just at 10,000 miles one way.
• When we arrive in Vladivostok, we will only be about 6,500 miles from home.

We have the kids taken care of-they’ll be with Grandma part of the time (at our house so we don’t miss much school)  and with cousins part of the time so you know its gonna be great.  We have what we think is every last detail taken care of. I would imagine we will overlook something, but as long as we have really important stuff, we’ll be doing great.

Prayer requests for now are for weather to be good.  (That’s a pretty big portion of the earth that we will be covering!)  That the kids will be okay for the week we are apart.  That our first meeting with the boys will go well.  We know nothing about the boys except from what we know from a couple of photographs and a brief medical report.  We are, to one another, complete strangers.  Yet they will come into our family, into our home.  I will give them my name.  With the first meeting we are apprehensive, excited, joyful, and a dozen other emotions wrapped up.  Finally, pray that we would sleep.  With preparing for this trip, splitting up the family, getting everything right, well, our brains are just going crazy trying to make sure we remember everything, and we have a really long trip ahead of us.

So for my friends who may be reading this, I just want to say, sorry!  I haven’t forgotten you!  Once we get back we’ll get in touch again!!!  I’ll be updating on facebook, twitter, and here; but how much of the time I have access I don’t know.  We’re ready to be off!  Slava Bogo!