The blankets at the airport.

Here is a picture of our luggage for the trip. The two large duffle bags and the largest suitcase are filled with gifts for the orphans and for those who help us over there. Among other things, the kids get fleece blankets and pajama bottoms (90 items altogether) that I enclosed in Space Bags and squeezed all the air out of.

After we got all our luggage and were walking out of the airport, just before the exit, Dave was stopped with the large luggage cart and they ran all the bags through the x-ray machine. The women were very perplexed by the space bags of crumpled blankets and pjs and had us open the luggage. The did point at one of the bags and ask, "What is theese?" Being exhausted, all I could think of in Russian was the word for "child". So, being myself, I said in Russian, "for child" and acted out putting a blanket on myself and putting on a pair of pj bottoms. They nodded their heads and said, "Ohhhh.....okay, okay," and with that we were off!