18 Feb 2009 – 7pm St Petersburg time
Today was part fun, part adoption work. We left this morning at 7am for our medical appt. We arrived at the Russian Hospital of the Academy of Sciences at 8am. We had blood drawn, an EKG and chest x-ray. Then we met with 8 different specialty doctors. We were treated extremely well, given pastries, tea or coffee in between doctors and saw a few other adoptive couples. Overall, we were there 4 ½ hours, but it went by fast and we had a good time teaching our interpreter sayings like “off the beaten path,” “piece of cake” and “pass out” (which we didn’t do when they took our blood). We were pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went. Then we were off to the notary where we had to sign a bunch of documents for the court officially asking to adopt Artyom and change his name to…HERE IS WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR… Boris Ivanovich Singleton…Just Kidding…it took us 16 months, but when the pressure was on last night (and this morning) we asked to adopt MADDOX LEONIDAS SINGLETON. Maddox is Welsh meaning benefactor’s son , Leonidas meaning brave as a lion and also after the Spartan king who led 300 Greeks against hundreds of thousands of Persians (you can look up the story online) and he was also known for his kindness and respect for his wife.
Then after the notary, we went to a local Russian lunch place and had a meat-filled pastry pie (Britt had a rabbit meat and mushroom pie-he says it was very good). Then we walked to the Church of the Resurrection and Spilt Blood (see picture). We wandered around the souvenir market and spent some money. It was very cold and snowy (today was the coldest day yet) and the vendors were really willing to come down on their prices because there was hardly no one there. After over an hour of browsing, haggling and buying, we were freezing. We set out towards our hotel, stopping by the Winter Palace (see picture) and walking for about an hour to get back to our hotel. Hopefully it will be warmer on our future visits and we can do some more sightseeing. Overall, it was a great day and we are packing up for our 3:30 departure tomorrow morning. We’ll get home around 4:30pm Kansas time and will await our next trip for our court hearing.
Today was part fun, part adoption work. We left this morning at 7am for our medical appt. We arrived at the Russian Hospital of the Academy of Sciences at 8am. We had blood drawn, an EKG and chest x-ray. Then we met with 8 different specialty doctors. We were treated extremely well, given pastries, tea or coffee in between doctors and saw a few other adoptive couples. Overall, we were there 4 ½ hours, but it went by fast and we had a good time teaching our interpreter sayings like “off the beaten path,” “piece of cake” and “pass out” (which we didn’t do when they took our blood). We were pleasantly surprised at how smoothly it went. Then we were off to the notary where we had to sign a bunch of documents for the court officially asking to adopt Artyom and change his name to…HERE IS WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR… Boris Ivanovich Singleton…Just Kidding…it took us 16 months, but when the pressure was on last night (and this morning) we asked to adopt MADDOX LEONIDAS SINGLETON. Maddox is Welsh meaning benefactor’s son , Leonidas meaning brave as a lion and also after the Spartan king who led 300 Greeks against hundreds of thousands of Persians (you can look up the story online) and he was also known for his kindness and respect for his wife.
Then after the notary, we went to a local Russian lunch place and had a meat-filled pastry pie (Britt had a rabbit meat and mushroom pie-he says it was very good). Then we walked to the Church of the Resurrection and Spilt Blood (see picture). We wandered around the souvenir market and spent some money. It was very cold and snowy (today was the coldest day yet) and the vendors were really willing to come down on their prices because there was hardly no one there. After over an hour of browsing, haggling and buying, we were freezing. We set out towards our hotel, stopping by the Winter Palace (see picture) and walking for about an hour to get back to our hotel. Hopefully it will be warmer on our future visits and we can do some more sightseeing. Overall, it was a great day and we are packing up for our 3:30 departure tomorrow morning. We’ll get home around 4:30pm Kansas time and will await our next trip for our court hearing.
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