perseverance equals.......um, uh............something?

It's starting to get hilarious. Elena (from the Russian embassy) takes all our passports yesterday and tells us to call her today, even though it's a day off for them. We try to call her but the number she gives us cannot be reached by cell phone. So we get to a landline and try again where we talk to this guy who says she's not in but to call back in an hour. We call back to the same number and all we get is the SCREEEEEEECH of a fax machine thing!! We call back a couple more times to no avail. So now we are stuck in Nairobi yet another day, but this day we have not our passports. Like I said, it's starting to get hilarious. Our Kenya visa expires on saturday so regardless of Russia, we have to be out of Kenya by then. So, tomorrow we drive to the Russian Embassy (again) and see what's happening. So, yeah, Russia HAS TO be good, cause it is proving to be one hard place to get into.