Nearing the end of Purgatory

I have been thinking of this mandatory 10 day waiting period mandated by Russian law as purgatory.
An overly dramatic metaphor perhaps but not easy to live through either.

Great lunch at noon with Lynne and Marina at the Hermitage in downtown Pyatigorsk.

Fantastic day in Rosovka. We were picked up at what is now the standard 2:00pm and then we spent 2 hours at the orphanage. We brought some small fancy cakes for all of the kids in the orphanage as a celebration for Anna and Ruslan leaving on Monday.

We spent some time on the orphanage soccer field and then a nice long walk. A new fun game is to run into the tall grass in a meadows and hide from Papa. Papa (me) pretends to have great difficulty in finding the children and feigning complete bafflement as to where could these sneaky little children are.

How do you get a 6 year old to not pick up the ball?

Rusik is good to his sister.

Madam butterfly

Papa, Papa, look what we can do!

Later this evening we had date night at a nice restaurant with a veranda overlooking the mountains.  We had a great meal and watched the sunset over the city.  A perfect ending to a perfect day.