I am sorry for not writing the past few days. I have been very busy here in Moscow. Let me start by explaining what I did yesterday (Day 2). My parents and I explored more of Moscow. We saw the Jesus Christ cathedral, which is the most famous cathedral in all of Russia and the Russian orthodox. In addition, we saw more old Soviet style buildings which are still in use by the Russian government today. I think the buildings are so beautiful, especially those with the USSR symbol carved into them. Later on in the day, we visited Pushkin stature located on Pushkinskaya ulitsa (street). We had a lovely guide named Liubov (or Luba) help us around the city of Moscow. She is a very beautiful, kind heated woman. Luba works at a law firm in Moscow. Her knowledge is incredible and speaks excellent English. Anyway, she is the girl in the photo with me below in front of Pushkin stature. After taking some photos in front of the stature, we proceeded to the Russian metro station nearby. We all road the metro around the city seeing the different beautiful stations. If you are ever in Moscow, you should know the Russians take great pride in how clean and beautiful their metro stations are. However, if you do not speak Russian if can be rather difficult as most signs are only in Russian. We ended the day eating at a nice restaurant and having some classic Russian food. I had Dolma. Dolma is pork and beef rapped in a Grape leave severed with sour cream. It was outstanding! Day 3: Today was a very special day. We were able to meet our adoption agent who was in charge for the MAPS agency here in Russia. Her name is Zoya. Zoya is a kind woman who only wants the best for everyone. She personally took a special interest in each child that was adopted under her care. Meeting her was extra special, as I was able to hear stories from long ago regarding my adoption process. She showed us a monastery today. This monastery had four churches all on the same ground. Zoya explained to me that they had so many churches simply because of the temperature change! The bigger the charger, the harder it was to heat. So, for each season the monastery had a different church to hold their religious services in. Very cool if you ask me. After visiting the monastery, we went to the top of a hill that looked over all of Moscow. It was so beautiful. You can see the "old" Moscow and the new modernized Moscow. The change is incredible. If you ask me, it looks like a bit of Chicago just popped up out of no where around Soviet style buildings. Very strange to a foreigner. We proceeded to this place with special artwork, restaurants, museums, and even a flea market.
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