Talk with Gertrude-She May Understand What's Happening

Well, our dossier is now in the hands of our attorney (whew!!) She will take it on Monday to get translated, which will take 1 1/2 to 2 weeks.

We talked with Gertrude today and she answered the phone and sounded very happy, and said "hi, I'm playing Monopole!" We played "Monopole" (Monopoly) here a lot with her last summer. We told her we think we will be in Latvia in November and that she will stay with us in an apartment. We said we would have lots of fun and we would go to the waterpark. She was very responsive to us and seemed to understand more this time for some reason (maybe my Latvian is getting better!) I asked her if it is cold there and she said yes, and "gray." We looked up the weather on the internet for Riga, Latvia after we got off the phone and it said it was 52 degrees and rain showers. So, seems we talked weather successfully! I think she may understand some of what is happening with her case because she seems more excited these days. As it gets closer we are getting more excited. We looked up airfares to Latvia and apartments in Latvia just to see what we're looking at. Seems fares are going down. Apparently fall/winter must be low season in Latvia. Guess not too many people want to travel to a place where it's dark almost 12 hrs a day and 10 degrees for vacation!