Celebrations with Erken and Sergei

Salim comrades,
Well as you know Sunday morning meeting was great. Sergei has such a nice part and his family is so attentive. I am sending pictures of their family and the restaurant we ate at. What a feast we had. I would put this restaurant up against any we have at home. We are really enjoying our time now with Joyce.
As usual the workers bail us out when we run into simple little problems. Yesterday we went to buy train tickets for Almaty. At the window the lady said, Oh, i must have your passport, not copies. (remember we we now carrying copies after being warned that the police at the moment like to take passports and hold them for a ransom) Well Jan and I made a quick trip back to the apt. and got them. Then the lady said, Oh, you need this immigration paper stamped twice or it is no good. Go to the police office and they will take care of it. So because we had Joyce along we did. They fiddled and called someone who said to go to the police chief or someone downtown. ( I'm sure that would not be free). So Joyce smiled and told them spaceba, thanks. She then just directed us to a different window, different clerk, and the new lady just sold us tickets with no questions asked. Such is life in this part of the world. Never give up.
Well I will see if I can attach a picture to this.
Dos ve danya. Comrade Morrie