Day 4

The only thing that Adam and I had "scheduled' today was to pick up our referral at the Department of Adoptions at 3:00. We are still adjusting to the time here and had a really long nap yesterday afternoon, so we were up pretty late. We slept till noon! I can't remember the last time I slept that late. We got up, showered and waited for a call.

We received a call from Victoria, our driver, and she told us she would be here around 2:30. Right before 2:30 we got another call from her saying she was at the embassy with another family and she would be picking us up at 3:30 to be at the Department by 4:00. We then received another call from another facilitator that said we were having another driver pick us up instead, we assumed Victoria was unable to leave the family at the embassy.

So Eugene picked us up around 3:15. The traffic was horrible. Adam and I are amazed every time we go any where that there are not more accidents. Drivers cut each other off, drive up on side walks and park wherever they want...even in the middle of intersections. We go to the office just in time to receive our documentation. We have to hand carry a large portion of our dossier to the region on Monday, making us very nervous. If anything happens to these papers, our adoption will be jeopardized.

After we got our papers, we were able to see a beautiful old cathedral right next to the office. This building was built in the 17th century. It was beautiful. Tomorrow Eugene will be taking us to more cathedrals around the city. We will post these pictures with tomorrow's blog.

It is very cold here. We have been told that it is snowing in a few regions. Right now it is just cold in Kiev, around 40 degrees. The heat has no been turned on in our building. We have a small heater in m our bedroom, so we spend most of our time cocooning ourselves in there. Praying we have heat soon.

We are looking forward to seeing some beautiful parts of the city tomorrow.