8 Medical Doctors???

We have successfully made it through our 8-doctor specialist medical exam today! What an experience this was. First of all, the traffic in Moscow is awful, I'd say it takes at least an hour to get anywhere, that's how long it took us to get to the clinic. Since its summer, all adoption medical appointments are made for Friday, so we saw lots of other couples there for the same reason we were. We met many couples from North Carolina, none from New England.

So, Ken and I were brought into a room where 4 women doctors were there waiting for us. They asked us a few questions, had us take off our shirts, shoes, and socks. They listened to our breathing, took our blood pressure and checked our reflexes. 3 of the 4 women were nice and not scary. There was one, however, who reminded me of "The Trunchbull" from the movie Matilda! She was something! To make it worse, she was the one with the rubber mallet checking reflexes...I think that I'll have nightmares of her and her mallet in nights to come! Anyway, this part of the exam lasted 10 minutes. Then, both Ken and I had to answer some questions by a psychologist. She was nice. That took about 10 minutes each. Then, we were done. So, it took about a half hour to complete the exams, then we waited for about an hour and a half to get our paperwork with 8 doctor's signatures and stamps of approval....yep, I said 8, even though only 5 examined us! But, who are we to ask questions?!

So, we are back at our apartment, enjoyed a nice meal of mac & cheese that we brought from home, and now we are planning on relaxing for a while. I'm not sure if we have recovered fully from jet lag yet.

Here are some pictures from our apartment:

Our Living Room

Bedroom

Ken in the kitchen cooking mac & yack after many minutes of trying to figure out how to use the stove!

The view from our kitchen. When I first saw this yesterday, I immediately thought of the Atari game Frogger. Can't you just see the little frog trying to cross this road?!