KazMainea! An International Adoption Memoir : Vayda Productions : 9780983494911 : 0983494916 : 24 Nov 2020 : "We're alone in Kazakhstan at midnight with thousands of dollars strapped to our bodies. Maybe foreign adoption is a mistake." An Adoption Story... In 2004, Heidi & Mike adopt two children from a mysterious country few Americans have ever seen. Along the way, they eat horse, get parasites, and survive scoldings and survelliance. Always on a need-to-know basis-yet, apparently, never needing to know-they careen from one bewildering day to the next. In the end, they learn to love a quirky culture and bring two remarkable little strangers home. And they blogged it all ....and a Lot More. Today, those remarkable little strangers are grown. Heidi & Mike revisit their adoption blog-and their lives-with the perspective of time. The result is KazMainea: a candid, humorous and poignant story about adoption and its affects, then and now. KazMainea is the tale of a journey that gives this A