Can you tell me what these all have in common? The answer in a moment...

First, we had a small adventure today. We were pretty stir crazy, and needing to get some food (so we wouldn't have to eat in the restaurant the entire time here). So our translator arranged a driver for us, and we took a trip to the supermarket! It was a fun experience - for whatever reason, I was a little nervous on the way there, I guess because I wasn't quite sure what to expect. The supermarket we went to, last trip (in the orphanage city), was pretty small & dark...my first experience in any foreign grocery store, and it intimidated me. I was determined not to be intimidated this time, though...and it all turned out well!

It was a pretty big, brightly lit place, and was organized much like our grocery stores in the U.S. I guess the way marketing goes, these days, you almost can't mess up in a grocery store. With pictures on the boxes (and a limited knowledge of vocabulary), we did pretty well...we got the fixings for sandwiches, some cereal & milk, yogurt, juice, pringles (yeah, pringles!), and some other stuff. Oh yeah, and some mocha wafer things from the bakery. Yum. I could've CLEANED that bakery out. (edited to add that I should've never listened to Nathan...the milk we got was not milk even though it had a "stinkin' cow on it." I didn't see the Russian word 'milk' anywhere on the carton - though the stuff across the aisle did have that word on it. But I got it anyway, because of that "stinkin' cow" and I didn't want to fuss with Nathan about it. Just now, I just went to make some cereal, and it seems that we picked up some sort of liquid sour cream stuff. Interesting. Not good in cereal though.)

And to answer the question at the beginning of this post... those are all flavors of Lay's potato chips. We also saw Sour Cream & Onion - but if I'd included that, it would've given the answer away!

Well, unless I get bored & think of something else to post about before then, I'll post again tomorrow! We leave at 8:00 a.m. to head out to the orphanage to see the little guy. If it takes us 3 hrs, like last time, then we'll be there by 11:00 (using my whiz math skills there)...which makes it 7:00 p.m. (on Wednesday) for everyone at home. Be thinking about us! And I will post later!