Toto, We're not in Kansas Anymore

We are here! We left the 65 degree weather in Birmingham and arrived to a snowy Moscow. It is beautiful here! Thankfully our plane from Atl to Moscow was only about half full-so just about everyone on the plane was able to stretch out over a few seats to sleep-It was so nice! We are hoping it will be like that on our return flight. And the flight lasted only 10 hours-which was shorter than we thought. Andrei-our coordinator in Moscow was waiting for us at the airport-and took us to our hotel-which was about a 45 min drive. We checked in and ate some lunch at the hotel restaurant (which was pretty good)-and headed out into the snow. Attached are some pictures of the St. Basil's Cathedral and Red Square. Hope you all enjoy. It is so neat to be somewhere where you usually only see pictures of in National Geographic or on the Discovery Channel. We are getting anxious to see Luke (which we should be able to see him Mon & Tues before the court date on Wed). It was such a cool feeling just being in the air on the way to his country and knowing that we will return with him. And also neat to think that he has no idea that he only has a few days left alone in the orphanage and that he will soon be loved, safe and warm and in the arms of his mom and dad. Thank you all for your prayers and for keeping up with us.