Today was a lazy day — we slept in very late and I didn’t leave the apartment until around 2 p.m.   Rob did take advantage of the downright balmy weather to go to the market this morning for water, Pepsi Light, & juice — gotta stay hydrated, y’know.

Here’s a shot of the apartments down our stretch of New Arbat Street bathed in the rare sunlight.   Our "Cathedral" apartment building is on the rightmost side of the photo.   Notice all that abundance of blue in the sky?   That doesn’t happen too often.   You could only just barely see your breath...   Where are my shorts & flip-flops when I need ’em the most?



After a little bite of lunch we decided to go back to Arbatskaya Lavitsa on Old Arbat Street, which everyone says is the place to get nicer, higher quality souvenirs.   We bought a set of Christmas tree ornaments that we hadn’t seen anywhere else, a couple of old-fashioned wooden toys for Liam, a couple of beautiful musicboxes, and a handful of other crafty gift items.

We also stopped by trusty ol’ Starbucks for a coffee to rest our feet & warm our hands.   Of course, there are plenty of other cafés along Old Arbat St., but we’re kinda creatures of habit...

While we were hanging out at Starbucks, Sinziana & Mark, a couple of fellow CSS PAPs recognized us and joined us for a nice, long chat.   They’ll be meeting their referral tomorrow — we can hardly wait to hear back from them tomorrow evening to find out how the first visit with their child goes!


 

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