Still No Girl Sighted

Well today is day 1.5 of no visit with our little girl. We were also told today that we will not be able to see her tomorrow...she has a fever (37.2-37.3 degrees C)and we don't want her to get any worse. We understand that she is sick and want very much for her to get better...but I now know what child withdrawl feels like and I don't like it (my mom will get the reference).

So to keep ourselves busy today we went and paid for airline tickets to Almaty. I am going with our little girl and her caregiver to Almaty on Thursday to see a doctor there. This is so she can get her Canadian Immigration Medical done. We will fly out on Thursday early afternoon and not return until Saturday early afternoon. While gone I get to take care of my little girl...all under the watchful eye of her caregiver that is. I have met this caregiver before and she is very nice. I am sure she will give me lots of advice and I am ok with that...I can raise her the way I want when back in Canada, but until then I will listen and learn. We also watched CARS today and we loved it! If you haven't seen this movie yet go and watch it right now. It is so cute and has a very good lesson in it. Other then that we watched BBC world news. This is the only program/channel that we have in English here. Sometimes we switch to RU.TV, which is the Russian music channel. We don't understand a word of what they are saying but their videos are quite funny. All the female pop stars are gorgeous and the male ones are old...and I mean OLD.

Back to the tour...


This is our first hotel room in Almaty. It cost us 22 thousand tenge a night ($160 US)...it really wasn't worth it. The bed was incredibly hard. Imagine sleeping on plywood or a Klingon bed (for those geeks reading this). The last night we were there it rained and in the morning the ceiling was leaking on us...thank goodness we were awake already.



This is our hotel room in Kyzylorda. It is much nicer! It has two queen size beds...one of which we are using to put our luggage on top of and the other to sleep. These beds are much more comfortable then the first hotel. Not as comfy as home but not bad for hotel beds. This hotel is also way more cost effective. We get breakfast included (which I don't usually have as I'm not that hungry in the morning) and we get 15% off our other meals in their restaurant. Again the food here is quite good. I found a new discovery one night while reading the menu...spaghetti with cream oil. Anyone fancy a guess to what this is? Yep, it is spaghetti and butter. A culinary favorite of mine when lazy. So I have been eating this when I need some comfort...and I haven't reacted might I add.

A normal day (not recently but oh well) for us is us getting up at 8 am, Andrew rushing downstairs for breakfast like he has never eaten anything in his life, and then getting picked up at 10 am for our first visit. After the visit we go to the grocery store (if we need to) to pick up water or food stuff. After this we are dropped back at the hotel and we amuse ourselves with DVDs until 4 pm when we are picked up for our afternoon visit. After this visit we get dropped back at the hotel and do our web logging, email checking, etc. At around 6-7 pm we have supper in the hotel restauant. Finally we return to the room and watch DVDs until 9-10 pm when we go to sleep. Then again starts this cycle. You might be asking why don't we go for a walk or something...well it is extremely dusty here. My allergies and well just breathing isn't too good for long periods of time outside. Also, it is cold here right now (for here that is) and it isn't much of an inducement to go and brave the dust. Also air quality is a little different in comparison to home. Combine these with the fact that pedestrians do not have the right of way and it is a little dangerous to go outside really.

More pictures...


This is the hospital our little girl was born at! We are having a little discussion on our side here...Andrew thinks that he heard no men at all were allowed in this maternity hospital, while I think our translator said no men allowed in the birthing rooms. We will check back with her about this...we have said before she is pregnant and thus knows about these things.

The phone number for our cellphone was a little incorrect...instead of a 8 just use the country code of 7 when dialing. Well that should be enough for today. Andrew is now pacing within the internet room as I think a spec of dust has flown by him. Sorry guys his attention is gone. We'll put some more pics up tomorrow. Miss you.

Pray/send good thought that our girl gets better soon. Withdrawl pains are quite high right now.