Sunday, January 6, 2008

Great Advice from Kaz Adoption Families

Advice from the Bilbros Traveled 2007 to Almaty.
  • Advice from Stacey: 2007 to Semey. Sorry, you'll have to scroll down to Sept 18th posting entitled "Helpful Hints"
  • Almaty Advice from the Woods and bonus - Advice Addendum
  • Gena and James Lloyd recommend:

    • Take a cheap umbrella stroller as they are expensive there. Most everyone will tell you that. We took a pack too to carry him but it turned out that we got large 8mth old who weighed much too much to carry. The stroller can be used for entertainment, feeding chair and is invaluable in the airport. If you get there and dont need it what's the worst, you leave it there.
    • Take mix and match clothes and just wear them over and over again, they do. That will leave more room for other stuff and the washers will wear out your clothes there in due time.
    • Do take little kleenex packs as TP is rare in public or you may pay "as you go" seriously you get like 4 tissues for 10cents. I got sick, food poisoning, and had to pay for TP each time I entered the bathroom. I even had the translator tell the lady and she didn't care.
    • You do need to take over the counter meds like Pepto, Asprin etc and for the baby oral gel teething swabs came in real handy.

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