back in the city

We just arrived back in the city of K. Just thought I'd send an update for everyone to read this afternoon (back home).

We decided on two children at our appointment yesterday. For family that didn't understand we cannot ever see our Marina, Ivan and Anya again because they said no and the director asked that, "those foreign people do not step onto the grounds of the O again until Autumn". So we couldn't see them at least until the fall, I guess. But everyone here keeps saying it is over because the kids signed the papers saying they didn't want to be adopted out of the U.

So yesterday we had an appointment to see children that are available to be adopted. We decided on two (they looked just like keller cousins) and by some miricle got our paper work signed the same day and we headed down south. We stopped at 1 am to sleep at the scariest hotel we have ever stayed in. Poor Vladmir didn't even have a toilet in his room (it had been removed) and Troy thought that the fact that our shower had been ripped out was pretty bad, until he found that there was no hot water and only a trickle of cold. Needless to say none of us showered this morning. Beside the fact that Vladmir had us on the road at 6:15 am. We headed off of the freeway through beautiful farm country, but it was a good half hour of tiny winding roads before we found the town with the inspector. She was great and very helpful even though this only would have been her second international adp. We met the kids and they were great also, but last year they thought they would like to be adopted and when it came down to it they wanted to wait for their mom to come back and get them. We found their father passed away 18 months ago and they were taken from thier mother. So, I'm ok with that, I couldn't adp kids that would only have regrets.

The O. was amazing and the director was wonderful, such a different feel from Kr. Staff and everyone were super nice and helpful answering all of our questions. The director asked us to see if a sibling group had come available yet at the o. So we drove home (to the city) tonight and have an apartment with internet! Yea! So hopefully tomorrow after our busy morning I'll be able to upload some pics... nothing very exciting but pics. So when we turn in our paperwork tomorrow we have to decide if we want to schedule another appointment to look and some more children. We would like to see the siblings if they are available... again who knows what tomorrow will bring.

So we decided to not type out key words so that it won't pull our blog up in specific searches. Sorry for the guessing game. For the Horlachers, I had salmon on black linguine with shredded mango (in sunday's picture). It was fine, I don't know why they put a bib on me and I did have to take the plate off of the stand to even cut it. It was good, had flavor, a lot of things here are a bit on the bland side. : )