The View From Our Room

This is the view from our room--right across the alley (or courtyard of sorts) from our hotel. The housing here is very different than at home. Mostly everyone here lives in an apartment. As you can see from this picture and the ones below this, the apartment buildings are huge and go on and on. There don't seem to be a whole lot of entrances so I can only imagine what it's like to live right in the center of the building.

The weather today warmed up quite a bit today. We even found ourselves without our hat, coat and gloves. It was amazing! We ventured out to a mall and found another pizza place called Robin Bobin. It was interesting pizza, but it was pizza! The things that Russians put on their pizza is very different than what we are used to, but hey...we improvised by picking off what we did not want (yes, there was more than just cheese pizza left) and decided to be grateful for the familiarity of it. Not sure what the meat was, but we're pretty sure it was from a pig!

The time with our daughter was ordinary. We liked that it was ordinary. We just kind of hung out and enjoyed being together, but no need for big entertainment this time.

We were prepped for court this afternoon--what to say, what not to say, etc. We've been watching LOST to fill the time so we don't think about how nervous we are. Even though we know that everyone is praying for us and that we will have the God of the universe in the court room with us, it's hard not to be nervous. We are praying that we would merely be God's mouthpiece--that He would do the speaking. Not sure how much I'll sleep tonight, but I expected that. Everything for the last two years has been culminating up to this day--court day and it scares the poop out of me! I've never even been in an American court and here I will be standing in a foreign one. Yikes!

Tomorrow (or is that tonight for you?) is THE DAY!! Please keep praying for us!

II Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith, not by sight."