Part 2 Day 4 Derrick's visit

Our afternoon visit went about like the others. We picked Derrick up from his room. He was still in his crib from his nap, but he was awake. They changed him into the cute Cincinnati Reds outfit we brought for him. I brought other outfits, but they are too small, so we will just donate them. I'm glad they are too small.
We visited in the large play room, and we did manage to get one short video of him scooting. We may have a "Scooter" and a "Screech" on our hands!
Most of the time, he was very content to sit with us, allowing me to rub his feet and legs, and play with his green, nubby ball that lights up. We put him in the ball pit for a bit, but he was not much into it. All too soon, again, our visiting time was up, and we returned him to his room. I have been crying all day today in anticipation of tomorrow.

Back to the beach for dinner, for our last night. Besides visiting our new son, that has been the best part of the trip so far. Such a great way to end each and every day.

A small hiccup in checking out of the hotel in preparation for leaving tomorrow. They have it down that we used a bottle of mineral water from the "mini bar" (fridge in the room). We NEVER use the food in the room, we ALWAYS go get our own. We refused to pay for it. They didn't like that at all. Too bad. Lesson learned. From now on, when checking in to a hotel with a minibar, we will ask them to please remove all items from the minibar before we enter the room, and note that we will not be requiring anything be restocked. We don't use these things.

Tomorrow, I'm not sure when we will be able to post. We will leave the hotel a little earlier than usual to give us time to pick up the extra food we are supplying for Derrrick before heading to the orphanage for our last visit. We will have our morning visit, then have a couple of hours to kill before the train leaves for Shumen. But, we will have already checked out of the hotel, so we will be wandering until we get to the train station. We have told Toni to leave for the trip back to Sofia as soon as we are at the orphanage, not to wait for us. No need for them to be delayed any more than necessary on that 6+ hour drive.

As always, check Jim's blog for photos.

Mary