September 13 3:45 pm

Hi everyone. Thanks to everyone for their words of support and prayers. It helps us very much. By the way, our luggage did show up. That was good!

Yesterday a new application for another appointment was submitted to the Adoption Center. There are people working for us behind the scenes to get us another appointment as quick as possible. The most important thing is that it is a successful appointment so the wait is secondary.

We have really been keeping pretty busy. There is down time but we have not been bored. Yesterday (Monday) we did more sight seeing in Kiev. We saw more cathedrals and got some nice souveniers. We have been walking everyday usually around the track at the soccer field right next to our apartment. Darren discovered that it is pretty easy to get beer. There is a stand right by the apartment and he has learned that beer in Russian is Piva. So we had a couple beers last night.

Today we went to a beautiful area with more churches and cathedrals. The weather is perfect again today and we haven't had any rain. We had McDonalds for lunch and boy did it taste good! Just like home! The food is pretty good but not as much variety as we are used to. Also, they do not use condiments over here. The pasta that we had has been plain--without sauce. It sure was nice to have ketchup with our fries today. Tonight we plan on walking again and watching a movie on our portable DVD player. Oh--we bought a couple CD's today and boy they were cheap--4 bucks a piece. They don't have all the American Bands over here but a few. Well, we will sign out for now. We will probably post tomorrow again.
Christine and Darren