Presents!

All those presents you gave me for the kids were put to good use!  We used an extra bedroom at Orphanage #15 as a staging area to pack all that lovely stuff into plastic bags and mark them by gender and age.  In the pictures above Barry Moll, Brandon Moll, Michelle Clark and Katy Wrona work hard at loading bags while some of us were practicing the puppet show.  Some of the gifts stayed at #15, but the rest were packed back into boxes and bas and stowed on the bus to go with us to all the other orphanages we visited.  I'll be posting other pics of the kids receiving their stuff.

Here's a note of appreciation to U-Haul for making very tough boxes.  For less than $10, I bought three boxes that I loaded with stuff, reinforced with duct tape, and shipped 10,000 to bring smiles to Russian kids.  Those boxes were restuffed with sorted bags, retaped and hauled all around the Tomsk region as we visited various orphanages.  Those are really sturdy boxes!