Good News

We started our day early. Victor picked us up at 8am. Got to Svetlana's at 9am. Galina went in to get our paperwork, came back and said Svetlana's boss had been fired the day before. The good news was that his temporary fill in would sign our documents if we had any pictures of dead presidents. We did and off we went. Got to the notary, brought her a box of candy to thank her for getting us in so quick. She was very nice and told us that today was a religious holiday in Ukraine to remember when the angel Gabriel told Mary she would give birth to Jesus. All this in hand we went to get a plane ticket for Galina so she could get to Kiev and turn our papers in. They are at the NAC now. Praise God!
With all this work finished we picked up Kolya and went for lunch at the Black Sea. Found a restaurant right on the water and enjoyed a meal with our friends. The service was very slow, I think it was dinnertime when we got our food. Kolya asked many questions about his new life in America and we answered. He is excited to go on a plane. There were two dogs in the restaurant when we were eating, very strange. Alyona asked for them to be removed, they were but then came back again. We are enjoying our time here. We have met many nice people. Everyone is happy that we are adopting a child.
The only sad part of the day was when we took Kolya back to the internot and saw Dima M. who we prayed for for so long. It made us sad. We will continue to pray that God will get ahold of him. Now we wait til Court on Tuesday morning, we will continue to see Kolya this weekend, it will be nice not to have to run around so much. Continue praying that all will be well, also pray for the children here, they all need a home.