Russian Sisters

As you know, my sweet little Sveta was adopted from Russia a little over two years ago. She spent the first 3+ years of her life in an orphanage in a town called Gus Khrystalny. As God would have it, Sveta is not the only child to be adopted out of that orphanage by American parents. Louba, another little Russian orphan was adopted by a couple in Nashville, Tennessee. Jessi and Barry connected with this couple and exchanged e-mails and has Skyped with them since the girls arrived in the U.S. Yesterday they went a step better than that. While on vacation, the Morton family stopped in Nashville and arranged a face to face meeting. For the first time in over two years, and for the first time since leaving the orphanage, these two girls got to see each other. I can't imagine what these two young girls must have been thinking after all they've been through in their short lives. I'm calling them the Russian Sisters although they are not biologically related.

Here are the Russian Sisters after a swim in the hotel pool: