Trip details are FINAL

At long last I now have the plane tickets in hand, the apt in Moscow is rented, the room in St Pete is arranged and we have made one trip to Casper for trip items. We are getting so excited to go now. Brayden goes along on this trip and he is super pumped about that. I know the long plane rides will take care of this "pumped" feeling he has now, but we are still thrilled to take him along. We leave from Casper on Dec 6th, fly to Denver, then on to Frankfurt, and to St Pete. We spend one night in St Pete and have our 8 dr medicals done on the 8th and transfer to Pskov that afternoon-evening. On the 9th we go visit Braxton, and on the 10th we have court. The 11th we will go see Braxton again and then transfer back to St Pete perhaps via train. There is a lady there Tamara that rents out rooms. We can rent a room from her for $50/night so we will stay in St Pete for that weekend, the next week and following weekend, special mtg is on the 20th. Then transfer back to Pskov on Monday and see Braxton, then on Wed we should have the paperwork final and be able to go get him. On thurs night we board the train in Pskov to transfer to Moscow. We arrive in Moscow Christmas eve day, arrive in our two bedroom apt we are sharing with Jill and Yuri, and take our paperwork to the US Embassy. Of course Fri, Sat and sun all is closed, so Monday we will go back to the Embassy for the visas, Tues we register at the Moscow Consulate, and Wed we head for home on the noon flight Moscow to Washington DC. Then on to Denver and back into Casper on the 10:30 p.m. flight. We have our hotel room in Casper reserved and so we will drive home on thurs. Thats the trip in a nutshell. Unless the judge would change the length of time we must stay...if she would take pity on Jill and Yuri and let them come home to spend Christmas with their family. But we were told to NOT plan on that happening at all. We are thrilled with the way things have worked out. We will have lots of wonderful opportunity to see all kinds of things. We will have "private" guided tours in St Pete at least one day and maybe a couple more depending on who is available to guide us!! :-) Jill will stay in Pskov while we are in St Pete, she feels she needs to be seeing more of Yuri. We will all be together in the apt in Moscow though so that will be great for the boys. We have been blessed with many ways of saving money so this time in Russia won't be as terribly expensive as it could have been. Our apt can be seen at http://go-russia.com/apartment/rentals/TVERSKAYA%20AREA%20MOSCOW/319 Thats it for the Braxton update. Brayden turns 5 on Wednesday. That is hard for me to wrap my head around, but it is happening. The party is over the weekend, so will post pics of that event. He will have treats with his classmates on Wed though, so that will be fun for him too. He is growing up toooo tooo fast for me. We are enjoying a beautiful day here today, won't last long, but its nice today. No golden leaves for us this year, just freezer burnt brown. The early snow really fixed that for us. Best get to work, much to do and holding job interviews this week for my job...exciting stuff let me tell you!! But it will be nice to begin working with someone new toward the end of the month and thru Nov. Time to get this office moved again!!