St Petersburg

The kids and I had a great time on Wednesday sightseeing in St Petersburg.  Our friend, Boris, is such a great tour guide.  My friend, Adriana, and her sister, Ellie, are here to pick up her little boy, so they went with us.  We saw some beautiful sites:


The Church of our Savior on the Spilled Blood

The Vasilievsky Spit:

The Peter and Paul Fotress:

My Friend, Adriana and I

Aiden liked the look of this big gun.

The Hermitage, the largest museum in the world.  Before we left, Ana was reading a book that said if you spent 8 hours a day, it would take you 70 years to see everything in this museum.  We barely scratched the surface in the 2-3 hours we were there.  The architecture from room to room was amazing.

There is just something about a "Do Not Touch" sing that is hard to resist. 

 Nope, she didn't really touch it. 

 Aiden liked this room with lots of suits of armor and these ironclad horses.

Our little guy was amazing the whole time.  

You really would have thought this was part of his normal daily routine.

 

So on in between sightseeing, my friend, Adriana, had to drop some documents off with our facilitator.  Our facilitator was at the courthouse with another family for court.  We arrived at the courthouse right after they finished and we got to celebrate (read jumping up and down, screaming and hugging) Charlie and Melissa after they were granted their adoption of sweet little Dima.


Later in the evening, we met up with the again for a celebration dinner.

Charlie, Melissa, Adriana, and Me


What fun it is to see these children placed in families.
God is so good!