Adoption Day 2 and 3

By request, going forward, view all pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewartadoption2008/. We dont know the names of everything we have pictures of.

Yesterday the driver, Sergay, and our interpreter Christina picked us up at our hotel for a city tour. We first ate at a Ukrainian restaurant and went for the favorite dish, I dont remember the name but it looked and tasted like Chinese dumplings. We walked through the city and took various pictures of churches, historic buildings and statues and again had our share of cappuccino's. We learned much of Ukraine was destroyed during WWII so most of the buildings were re-built. In some areas they have stand alone pieces of remains of the old buildings.

Day 3- As some of you are already aware, we found out at 9:30 this morning the children were adopted yesterday by a Ukraine family. The adoption process is challenging if you dont have children pre-selected. To make a long story short, we are heading to Odessa tomorrow, if we get approval, to view twin 10 yr old girls. Their names are Olga and Era (cant pronounce the second name, need to roll the RRs), they aren't identical and have been there for 1 yr because their mom passed away and no known health problems. Looks like we are driving to Odessa instead of the train. Our agency has adopted from this orphanage before and its considered good like Maripol.

We didnt take pictures today, it was very emotional but we hope for the best tomorrow. If we dont want to adopt them, then we go back to the SDA and see if they will show us other children.

We dont think we will have access to the internet tomorrow.