It was the best of times...it was the worst of times..

Okay wrong Dickens for the season but it was an ODD day of UPS and DOWNS.

We were very excited this morning to be going to get Milos and bring him back to the apartment for the weekend-- actually we found out they want us to keep him until we leave since they are concerned about him bringing H1N1 back to the orphanage "is that okay with you Mr and Mrs Stolz?" UMMMMMMMMMM YEEEESSSSS!

We signed papers that we were responsible for him and they were sent off to the officials for a signature--- Alas-- no officials could sign. They had other obligations today so Milos is stuck for one last weekend.

We had a nice but short morning vist and went to grab some lunch-- back to "Sport" for soup and salad- yummy!

We took a tram back to the apartment to get Milos' coat and the camera (still hoping that we might bring him home in the afternoon.

---Tram note--

When the trams are working as advertised they are wonderful-- when there is a glitch it becomes a nightmare. They are not really on any schedule-- Just every 9 minutes or so. Well for some reason today they got bunched up-- 5 number 10 trams would ome by within 2 minutes then 50 minutes for the next one-- we waited over 40 minutes each time for a tram today--in the rain and cold--- argh frustrating (but 1/5th the price of a cab!)

Because of the tram problem we only spent an hour or so with Milos (who is Ben:-)?) but it was a nice visit-- including Milos favorite new game "pony under the bridge:



I have spent the last 2 hours working on our return flight (it sure is great to have a US phone number over here--YAY Magic Jack).

We probably could get out of here on Saturday, but to change our tickets and get Milos ticketed would be over $15,000 (yes you read that right)-- So Tuesday 12/22 departure it is-- I was able to get Milos' ticket down to about $1600 (from the 5k quoted by Delta) Thanks to the VERY nice and patient Air France reservation agent who figured out how to "git 'er done"! for less.