We got up at 8:00 this morning and went to meet the orphanage director at 11:00.  Prior to leaving Loonya went to put on new rear brakes on his car.  He didn't make it back in time so we hired a driver for 162 rph for the day ($1 USD = 5.4 rph).  The director was suppose to have the secretary, assistant, and doctor come into work.  She couldn't get a hold of the secretary.  The assistant was angry that she had to come in on her day off.  No one knew how to get into the PC.  I tried but the password they gave me didn't work.  Things were tense and Luda just about put on her boxing gloves.  She was angry for the staff not having documents prepared for us prior to our arrival on Saturday and for not having a backup secretary.  Luda felt they weren't cooperating as they should so threatened to report them to the NAC.  The director assured us that they would do everything they could to help.  I suggested that since it now was a matter of just typing that we could go to an internet cafe and hire someone to draft up the documents.  So that's what we did... luckily there was an internet cafe near the orphanage so we didn't have to drive back to Simferopol.

We walked to the internet cafe which is in the loft of a pool hall.  It was closed.  The bar owner called the owner of the internet cafe business.  At first he didn't want to come in but we talked him into it.  So he took a taxi to get to work and open up just for us.  I was really surprised that this spot in the road actually had internet access.  We hired him to help type up 6-7 documents in triplicate.  You need the same document but with different header information for the Judge, Orphanage, and NAC.  So there really were 18-21 documents.  He was a very good typist and saved the day for us.  We had him burn the documents to a CD just incase we had to make changes later.  He only charged us 60 rph.  That's the best $11.25 that I've spent.

After preparing the documents we went back to the orphanage and the director recorded, signed, and stamped all of the papers.  This was a huge hurdle but we got the job done.  Now in defense of the orphanage... The NAC director didn't tell them that we were coming to adopt Roman but just to look at him.  So they weren't sure if I was going to actually adopt him or not.  That's why they didn't prepare the documents in advance.  The secretary is a student who does this job as a part-time thing.  This orphanage probably wouldn't need a backup secretary because they only had 1 adoption in the past.  They just weren't prepared because there hasn't been a need before.  I am just happy that Luda made this happen in such a short amount of time.

While the director and Luda were busy certifying the documents, I spent time with Roman.  he didn't change his mind about being adopted and he didn't look so overwhelmed today.  We met some of his friends and both teachers.  While in the TV room another boy was carrying a chair past Roman and hit him in his temple.  His teacher, Natasha didn't see him get hurt so I nudged her.  Roman didn't want me to see him cry so he went around to the backside of a column.  We followed to make sure he was alright.  He is so quiet and shy.  He walked it off with us in tow.  He is a sweet boy and I'm very happy about adopting him.

When we finished with the orphanage we met with the inspector so she could begin writing the letter of conclusion.  There are still documents that we must get inorder for her to finish.  One is a new original court decree terminating parental rights from Yalta and the other is a document listing Roman's stay at his first orphanage. We will have to go to Yalta tomorrow.

After we left the inspector we headed back to the apartment to grab Loonya for dinner.  He already ate but gave us a lift.  We met Yonna after dinner and went for a drink and desert.  Later we dropped Yonna off at their apartment and I got to meet Shalom.  He's a very nice fella who is adopting a 3 year old boy.  He's been in Ukraine 8 weeks and had 5 appointments before finding his son.  Both him and Yonna will be glad when their adoption is over.    We chatted for a bit then headed home to go through all of the adoption papers.  This was a lond day.