12/12/07 - We Made It!

Well everybody as the title indicates....we made it to Ukraine. We got in last evening at around 4:30 pm local time. Our VIP service at the airport was tops!!! We highly recommend it. We zoomed through the customs entry which took maybe a minute then knocked out our paperwork to declare the money we brought in with us (5 minutes total) and met our entire facilitation team in the lobby. Our Team consists of Vlad, Konstantine (regional facilitator & driver) and Anton (translator & regional facilitator in-training)

We are in a very nice flat not far from Independence Square. We are very tired as the time change is pretty much kicking our butts. We had a great day wandering around Kiev and finding out how hard it is to communicate if you do not speak the language. We found the underground mall and of course McDonalds. We also met with our facilitation team and are excited for our appointment at the SDA tomorrow. We are already very glad we made a complete second copy of our dossier as we have already needed the second blank power of attorney we brought with us. We miss our boys very much but are full of anticipation that we may find out who their sister is tomorrow. Donna is convinced tonight will be sleepless....I just hope I don't wake of at 5AM again unable to sleep. If all goes well tomorrow, the earliest we will be able to meet her will be Saturday. Here's a couple of pictures of our day. The first one is of the Starvation Memorial near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Second is Donna and I in Independence Square, and the last one is near the monument to the Gatekeeper who is thought to have been the greatest leader of the Cosack's.

All our best,

Donna and Michael

PS - I found the coffee to be very good so, needless to say, I'm happy about that.

PPS - The Baboon Bookstore no longer exists. Sadly, it closed down in September.