Homeward bound at last!

Hello all
This is Tim. For all of you that have been keeping track of this adventure, I received a call from Stephanie tonight. She is the wife of an American man (Jack) that was helping Nell and Sam jump through the last few hoops before they could come home. She called from Michigan to tell me that Nell and Sam were in line to check in for their flight. They were scheduled to depart Almaty around 0300 (around 5 pm for us on the east coast), so hopefully she'll be in Germany in a few more hours. I have no doubt she'll update the blog during her 7 hour layover. For those of you who haven't been to the Frankfurt airport, it is one of the better airports to explore if you are forced to have such a long layover--it has hundreds of stores and restaurants as well as several train stations that Ian enjoyed exploring. I'll let her continue her blog when she gets there. Thanks for all your support!
Tim and Ian, waiting not so patiently for the rest of our family to come home