Sunday, January 11, 2009

Day One






We arrived in Taldykorgan safely. Everything is covered in beautiful snow. The weather is perfect. After a long delay in Amsterdam because of a technical problem, another plane had to be brought in from Washinton. We left Houston at 4 pm Friday and arrived Almaty 8 am making our trip about 40 hours......long ass in any langauge. After a long passport line, Kazakhs don't hurry, we loaded the car amazingly after several arrangements. The drive was fine and Gulnara had new snow tires. We were able to see Dias briefly. He had just awakened from his nap. He blinked as if he were not sure we were real. He ran to me and hugged me and we kissed a lot. He kept kissig my cheek. He told everyone his mama and papa were here. He remembered our names. He has been telling the kids he is going to the USA. They had the their room decorated so cute for Christmas. The staff were so glad we were here and said they talked about us to Dias everyday.

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