S'novum godum! On New Year's Eve the Orphanage staff provided a wonderful feast for us. What's pictured above was just the appetizer course. The lady at the end of the table is the director of Sergei Posad Psychological, Valentina. She, along with Anya, two cooks and a couple of other staff members gave up their evening with their families to be there to ring in 2007 with us. There were many toasts during the evening and at midnight we heard President Vladimir Putin give his address to the nation over television. (Earlier in the evening we all sat around the TV in the director's office and watched the finale of the Russian version of "Dancing with the Stars" - what a hoot! The winner was a cute young male pop singer; you didn't have to understand Russian to know what was going on but Anya was there to translate for us.)
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