Evening

If last Thursday was Night and last Friday was Day then yesterday (Monday) was Evening. Sam was trying really hard to behave but once again everything was different. We had to move downstairs because they were packing up files in our usual room. We brought a Where's Waldo book but Sam was going to have none of that. Really after about 20 minutes he was pretty much done being civil, but he was not as bad as last Thursday. That might have been because in the room there were about 4 other caretakers just sitting around (Not sure why they have the full staff when Sam is the only child under 15 in the orphanage and there are a total of 3 children). But he might have just been wound up because we gave him a bunch of sugar at the beginning of playtime. We really need to wait until towards the end.

Today we went to Ikea to pick up a couple of things. We walked about 1 mile to avoid riding the trolley or going an extra 5 stops on the Metro (subway). We then got to where we thought the Mall bus would come to pick us up but it actually was one stop too far. It also turns out that was the scariest areas around a Metro station we have been. We figured out that we had gone 1 stop to far and got back on the Metro and where riding the bus in no time. We ate at Ikea. Swedish meatballs and potato soup and it was very delicious. On the ride back from Ikea we got on the wrong bus. Apparently we should have gotten on the blue topped bus and not the red topped bus. Our mistake was rewarded hansomely with 1 1/2 hour Metro ride that featured 14 stops. Exciting!

We may go to see Sam tomorrow, but we might not be able to, because our driver bought a new van from Germany and is possibly going to pick it up tomorrow from Finland. Long story short, he bought a van from 2004, but thought it was from 2006, because of this mistake he had to pay an extra $7000 on top of the $7500 he had to pay for buying a non-Russian made car (Don't tell Obama or we might end up paying a ridiculous import tax on foreign cars too. He would do it. Yes, I just got political.). So we may go tomorrow or may end up going on Thursday and Friday again.