The kids are on their way!

Please forgive me for the parts I had to edit out of this information that was just sent to us from Becky, our project coordinator.

"For those of you wondering where they are and wanting to live vicariously, this is the trip plan: They left the capital of the ... region, ..., by overnight train at 6:20 p.m. local time Thursday, which translates to 9:20 a.m. CST. They will arrive in Moscow about 12 hours later (6:20 a.m. Friday local time, about 9:20 p.m. CST tonight), where they'll be picked up and brought to Moscow's Domodedevo Airport. They will depart Russia at 2:30 p.m. local time Friday, January 9, which will be 5:30 a.m. CST Friday. After a flight scheduled to be 11 hours, they will arrive in ... at 4:30 p.m. CST, and will clear customs and immigration before their 8:15 p.m. CST flight to Tulsa. They should arrive at 10:10 p.m. CST into Tulsa. This translates into 7:10 a.m. Saturday Moscow time, so they will have been traveling over 36 hours, not counting the trips from the orphanages to Cheboksary, some of which might be several hours away by white-knuckle car ride. "

They will be here tomorrow. We are so busy making our welcome sign in Russian, letting everyone know about events, trying to stay calm. It's so exciting to meet precious children who know little or no English yet just traveled 36 hours to possibly meet their forever families. Wow! Were you that brave when you were 8-14 years old. I don't think I was.