Day 1
Well, we are finally fed and settled in. Our previous post was probably jumbled as we were running off very little sleep and less food. And as some of you know after our Wednesday night escapade we are still catching up on sleep. We took a little nap this afternoon but didn’t want to sleep too much so we could go to bed at a decent hour tonight. We had dinner at Cyhdyk Nag (pub) It was funny looking at the English translations for their fare….Calat is…. tinned tunny, tomato, cuke, and a sheet of salad. I passed on the canned tuna! But we did have a good dinner. Newcastle beer and a skewer of beef.
Dad, Jo and Dawn….you won’t believe this. We were standing in customs at the airport here in Kiev and were talking to a missionary group that we traveled with us from Raleigh and they asked where I was from and I told them Roanoke (no one knows where Floyd is) Ha! They said they had a friend Pete Vandenberg from Floyd who purchased land near the Buffalo Mountain! Can you believe it. They play golf at Great Oaks 2 x a year and have been to Chateau Morrisette…..talk about a SMALL world! The other lady that was there grew up on Bogue inlet….near where we live now.
Litton, Amelia Olivia Mae and Virginia the Ukranians love their chocolate! They have entire stores with only chocolate in them I don’t think I have ever seen so much it goes from the floor to the ceiling. I will bring some back to you.
Michael, we are right in the heart of the city of Kiev, Ukraine. There were tons of little boys walking out with their parents tonight. I think they must get to stay up late on Saturday nights. When you look us up on the satellite, we are on Khreshchatyk street in an apartment on the 5th floor. I should be in great shape when we get home…..no elevators here.
Julia, I hope you had a great birthday and that you let Woods have a little of your cake!
Tomorrow we are going to do some sight seeing around the city, try out the Metro (pray for us J) and see the Statue of Independence.
Monday is our big day. We will go to the State Department at 12:00 for our appointment. This is the BIG one, the one we have been waiting for (3 years and 39 days but who is counting) We will go in and they will show us about 5 children that are available, their medical condition, age, region, etc. and there will be a translator reading the files to us. We will have 1 hour to decide and then we will take the name to our facilitator and she will call the orphanage to check on the status of the child. If he is available and what she deems a good pick we will travel to that region with all of our baggage and stay there until we can bring the child back here to Kiev probably about 2-3 weeks in the adoptive region and then back here for a week. Unless the child is near Kiev then we will stay here in the apartment. Of course that is what we were told today, the plan may change Monday, flexibility and patience are a definite necessity here.
If you try to call us on our cell phone….don’t forget to dial 011 to get an international line. Our apartment phone number is 011-380-44-279-96-84 if you want to call us on that number.
Jenny, we are mailing your letter tomorrow. Thank you for all your help and the phone! We have already talked to the kids.
Dad, Jo and Dawn….you won’t believe this. We were standing in customs at the airport here in Kiev and were talking to a missionary group that we traveled with us from Raleigh and they asked where I was from and I told them Roanoke (no one knows where Floyd is) Ha! They said they had a friend Pete Vandenberg from Floyd who purchased land near the Buffalo Mountain! Can you believe it. They play golf at Great Oaks 2 x a year and have been to Chateau Morrisette…..talk about a SMALL world! The other lady that was there grew up on Bogue inlet….near where we live now.
Litton, Amelia Olivia Mae and Virginia the Ukranians love their chocolate! They have entire stores with only chocolate in them I don’t think I have ever seen so much it goes from the floor to the ceiling. I will bring some back to you.
Michael, we are right in the heart of the city of Kiev, Ukraine. There were tons of little boys walking out with their parents tonight. I think they must get to stay up late on Saturday nights. When you look us up on the satellite, we are on Khreshchatyk street in an apartment on the 5th floor. I should be in great shape when we get home…..no elevators here.
Julia, I hope you had a great birthday and that you let Woods have a little of your cake!
Tomorrow we are going to do some sight seeing around the city, try out the Metro (pray for us J) and see the Statue of Independence.
Monday is our big day. We will go to the State Department at 12:00 for our appointment. This is the BIG one, the one we have been waiting for (3 years and 39 days but who is counting) We will go in and they will show us about 5 children that are available, their medical condition, age, region, etc. and there will be a translator reading the files to us. We will have 1 hour to decide and then we will take the name to our facilitator and she will call the orphanage to check on the status of the child. If he is available and what she deems a good pick we will travel to that region with all of our baggage and stay there until we can bring the child back here to Kiev probably about 2-3 weeks in the adoptive region and then back here for a week. Unless the child is near Kiev then we will stay here in the apartment. Of course that is what we were told today, the plan may change Monday, flexibility and patience are a definite necessity here.
If you try to call us on our cell phone….don’t forget to dial 011 to get an international line. Our apartment phone number is 011-380-44-279-96-84 if you want to call us on that number.
Jenny, we are mailing your letter tomorrow. Thank you for all your help and the phone! We have already talked to the kids.
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