We Are Here!

We arrived on Friday, January 22nd around 2 p.m. Ukrainian time. We went to grocery store and ate at a nice restaurant and called it a day. On Saturday we woke up around 8 a.m. stayed up til 10 a.m. and then went back to sleep until around 1 p.m. Then we ventured out in the cold to take pictures and shop. We went out to Independent Square and got our picture taken with Santa and 4 beautiful white dogs (of course that cost us). Sunday we got up and I taught Tricia how to play Mario Kart on the DS and we ate and shopped. Today (Monday) we had our SDA appointment at 10 a.m. and things went well. We had a scare that we would not be able to recieve both children's referrals today but our facilitator Natasha did some sweet talking and we got both of them. So we will get referral paperwork tomorrow, pack up everything and head to the childrens region. We will not get there until late so we will not see the kids until Wednesday morning. Tomorrow is suppose to be the coldest day here. Way below zero!!! Everything has been very nice in Kyiv, the people are nice our apartment is small but clean, warm and has running water and a toilet so who can complain (lol). I am sure our next place we will not be as lucky. We are having a great time and appreciate everyone's prayers. We will not post again until after we see the children. I think we have a computer in our next apartment so we will not have to go out in the cold and walk. Love you all!!