Appointment Day

We had our appointment today. Our day started out normal. We were picked up and driven to the NAC. It’s a non-descript building with a guy in camouflage at the front. I’m not sure if he’s part of the army or just a guy who like’s to hang out at the NAC. He wasn’t in a guard house or anything and didn’t look like he was standing at attention.

While at the NAC we found out the girl we are interested in has a brother. Who is sixteen. We hadn’t considered adopting an older boy and have reservations about it but we are willing to keep our minds open. We are heading to Odessa tonight on the train. Our facilitators did some magic to get us on a train (it’s a long story).

If you’re not up on your fast walking I’d recommend starting to get in shape while here. Everyone walks here a lot. Our facilitators walk very fast and don’t really look back to much to make sure you’re keeping up. But their haste is much appreciated on this end.

Last night we found the internet café in the post office and used it for a little while but it was slow. We then had a few hours of sleep, woke up at 4am and I couldn’t get back to bed. We’re taking drugs tonight on the train! Ok… they’re legal drugs but drugs none the less. Hopefully we will be able to get some sleep on the train.

We had our first Ukrainian restaurant meal it was very good. Some things here are very cheap like McDonalds and a couple of other places J Other things are very expensive. We are in an apartment overlooking Independence Square. The view is great and the apartment very nice. They are still on the pulse dialing system so using the calling card is interesting because you have to dial the phone card number by pulse then switch the phone to tone to punch in the account number and phone you are dialing in the USA.

We have only had a couple of hours of down time so far. Jet lag is present in full force but I’m sure I’ll adjust about the time we are supposed to leave. Please pray for no futher complications… we can use all the help we can get at this point. We can’t afford an extended stay here but we have high hopes things will work out.

Our facilitators are sending a taxi for us to meet them at the train station in a few minutes so I’d better go and get this sent. Give the kids hugs and kisses for us (for the Smiths). We are missing them a lot!!!

Kyle