We often go to Chicago area to visit with friends of mine from college. This weekend held a different purpose. Because I knew this weekend we would be there far ahead of time, I asked several other adoptive families if they wanted to join us in the hotel. Two other families took us up on a fun weekend.
Friday night we arrived around 8 and met up with the Weal family. They are adopting a sweet little boy from Maria's orphanage who happens to be blind. I met them through Facebook and it just happened that Maria knew the child they are adopting. Right now they are in between trips and waiting for a court date. We are very excited for their little hoy to come home.
Friday night we spent in the hotel room, us moms talking and our girls on a bed making Raimbow Loom bracelets. They had so much fun! The loom bracelets are a big hit with most girls in the 9-14 age range right now. I have no clue how many bracelets they made, but I know Maria had on 2 to start with and by today had on 6.
Saturday Kim and Nikolas joined us too. They did a little trip to Legoland, but it was super busy from what Kim said. Kim and I got some talking time in too, but her little guy wasn't quite his normal self.
We also spent some time on Saturday with two of my college friends. Nicole stopped by in the morning and we chatted before needing to go to the track clinic and then Andrea and her daughter Scarlett came and spent the night with us. All the kids loved swimming. Maria got to try out a swimming tube....she loved it. I have never seen her look so confident in the water and be willing to be so far away from the side. Of course more loom bracelets were made.
Today brought a quick trip to the Bulgarian market, Malincho. We love this store...most of the adoptive families I know rave about Jungle Jim's in Cinncinatti, but they have nothing on Malincho. Malincho is like shopping at a market in Bulgaria. Today we got fresh banitsa to eat and lots of snack foods including salted stixs, Double croissants and juice too. After that we decided to get lunch at Ave BG, a local BG restaurant. It was good. Maria wanted Bulgarian meatballs of course with peach juice. Others had tarator soup, Shopsak salad, and a yummy chicken dish. While we were out there was quite the storm that hit the area. Some flooding happened on the streets and there were some semi trucks that were getting towed on the interstate that we saw.
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