We have arrived

What a trip! We are so glad to finally be here. We did not have good wi-fi access yesterday, so you will have 2 posts back to back.

In answer to the questions:
YES! Our ears did hurt on the second and third flight. Everyone except Peter is pretty stuffed up, so that didn't help. In fact, we are still waiting for our ears to return to normal.

We never got to see the stars on the overnight flight because we were in the middle isle and all the people around us had their shades drawn. The kids didn't get much sleeping done either. I suppose in flight tv is a good idea, but it can be very distracting when your mom and dad are trying to convince you that it is bedtime. Peter was so tired that he fell asleep waiting in the airport in Germany for our flight to Kiev. We could not wake him up. Ed had to carry him on the plane and he slept for the entire flight. I could not even get him to wake up for lunch. Poor guy!

We had wonderful airplane food. Supper, breakfast and lunch were all very good. We had the best chocolate with our lunch today. Pretty spoiled.

Peter has had the chance to use his foreign language skills. It is pretty cute to hear him say "Deh toilette?" even though he is just asking Ed and I. We'll find some unsuspecting stranger for him to try it out on!

When we arrived in Kiev, Igor was there to meet us. He drove us to our apartment. This is where we met Olga who will be our facilitator while we are here. She went over the process we will be going through in the next few days. It seems as if we will be in Kiev a bit longer than we expected. Our appointment will be on Thursday where we will request the case of our certain little guy. We will not be able to pick up the official paperwork until Friday. Unfortunately, train tickets are all sold out for travel to Sevastopol. So we need to fly. Tickets were much less expensive on Sunday rather than Friday or Saturday. So we will be in Kiev until Sunday. Good and bad. That will give a bit of time to sightsee which is good, but we will also spend a bit more money. Bad because that will delay meeting our little boy. There is a purpose for everything and I have nothing but faith that there is a good purpose to this delay in travel.

We ate pizza and soup for supper tonight. I had a very mild chicken and parsley soup. Ed had a sausage and olive soup the was quite rich but tasty. The kids had the pizza. We went "grocery" shopping after supper, but will have to look for stables tomorrow. This was more of a delicatessen. We have a kitchen in our apartment and one bedroom. Ed and I will use the bedroom and the kids will use the living room and the pull out bed. They are more than excited about this. It resembles "camping" to them. They have already made themselves at home.

We miss everyone. Feels like we have already been gone for a week! We love reading your comments and feel so blessed to have people who care so much and lift us up in prayer. You all mean so much to us.

We'll leave you with a few pictures of where we will be calling home for the next few days.
















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