
Forming a family through international adoption.
We didn't do anything adoption related today. The big event for today was to get my plane tickets changed to 10/19. After several failed attempts to get online help through the NW site and their support emails, I asked the folks to do it from the US side. The local phone numbers I had for the KLM office didn't work and I couldn't get the "right" ones out of NW/KLM online support. So once again google.com saved me. I just did a search on KLM in Kiev instead of Northwest. Then I took a taxi to visit them in person. I got the ticket changed in their office without any problems. While there I met two American couples who were trying to get home. They both had very successful adoptions. One was a cute little butter-ball boy between 1-2 years old. He looks like he had a cleft-lip surgery. The other was a cute dark-haired little girl that looked to be between 2-3 years old. One of the couples was from Indiana and had adopted using a Christian organization. I can't recall the name. They had a fairly quick adoption process.
After getting the ticket problem resolved that afternoon, I hit the internet cafe to let the folks know. While there I met Terry (Canadian) again. She and her husband were the ones that adopted a very cute little boy with big brown eyes and brown hair. They are making great progress in getting through their embassy paperwork and should be heading home on Wednesday. Very nice couple. They cave me their contact info so we could hook up during their last days here.
Early evening time frame, I called Bogdan to make sure I could visit orphanage 12 tomorrow (Saturday). I wanted to take some fruit to the class I'm sponsoring. I had talked to Terry about that orphanage and she was interested in visiting. So I took the opportunity to try and set up a tour for them on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Other than that.. my day has been pretty quiet.