The time has come!

Greetings PBC blogospherians,

we've got good news! After five weeks in the hospital, our little chap has been released! While a hospital stay that long sounds very serious to the American sensibility, we've discovered that the Russian hospital system is almost a complete opposite of ours. The first two weeks were hospital mandated recovery time from his surgery (the actual recovery time is five days). During that time he caught the flu, so he had three additional weeks of mandated recovery time.

Unfortunately, there were communication difficulties between the hospital, orphanage, our adoption agency, and us. Since his first trip to the hospital, we have scheduled and canceled three trips to Russia.

Finally, we can say that Trip #4 is a go. We've had the tickets scheduled for a few weeks now, but after scheduling and re-scheduling our trip so many times, we didn't want to jinx it. Soon we'll be off to Russia, to meet our little guy for the first time. Both Kathy and I are very excited to finally be heading over. The next few weeks are going to be a flurry of activity!

Information will be spotty until we return from Russia. To those who already know various details, we ask that you keep them private. Until we sign the papers of intent to adopt, there is always the possibility that something can change.

Going radio silent,
Agent Al-Pal