We're Famous in Moscow :-)

Hello, family and friends! We made it to Moscow with our little boy in tow. We had 13 people see us off at the Chelyabinsk airport, it was so great. Kirill's parents brought Luke a remote controlled machina (car) that lights up and does flips and he thought that was the cat's meow! It was so nice of all our friends to come see us off. Pastor Andre prayed a blessing on Luke, Mark and I in Russian, it was a beautiful moment for us as a family.
Our flight was delayed about 1 1/2 hours, so by the time we got on the plane Luke was already very tired. As we boarded Luke walked quickly down the isle talking about the machina we were on and Mark and I were behind him. The stewardess saw him coming and bent down and held out her arms to him and Luke realized that Mama and Papa were not in front of him--we saw him really cry for the first time. He turned around and reached for Mark and when he picked him up all was well again in his world. The stewardess felt so bad so she gave him 3 chocolates and Luke said Spaciba! (thank you) and all was forgotten----until we only let him eat one instead of all three, he wasn't too happy about that. After about a hour of playing with the safety information card (look out Cousin Tom he may be on your flight someday to check out your plane's safety features!) he finally fell asleep.
When we got into Moscow he was very excited to ride in Vladamir's machina and talked about it all the way to the hotel. He loved seeing all the big Christmas trees along the way. We got settled at our hotel at midnight, a very nice Mariott, and then had to be up again at 6 to go for his medical appointment. Then we dropped off our paperwork for the US Embassy interview tomorrow afternoon.
Now for the famous part! We walked to a grocery store a block away to get out and pick up a few things and a couple walked by and said 'the Robb family?' and we said yes! They are the Park family and they are headed to Krasnoyarsk to meet their child for the first time. They are with our agency and have been following our blog. Please pray that they will have safe travel and divine bonding with their child. We're praying for you Sara & Jeremy!
Next I overheard someone speaking English at the front desk and I said, 'are you an American?' and he said yes! So we started talking and I told him we are headed home after two months in Russia and he said 'oh, we heard about you!' They are with our agency, as well, and have a beautiful 1 year old boy named Gavin. They are all headed home on Saturday, just in time for Christmas, as well. Who would have thought we would be well-known in Moscow :-)
We will post some photos tomorrow, we are so tired and just put Luke down to bed--a very tired little man, as well.
By the way, several of you have expressed interest in helping the Chelyabinsk church purchase windows and we have asked Pastor Andre to give us wire transfer instructions so we can wire the money dontaed directly to him at the church. We will post our home number and email address when we get the information from. Thank you God for sending these faithful givers!