Glorlovka

Good Evening everyone, we are in Gorlovka now just got settled in our hotel. I stayed here in April when I came it's a very nice hotel. Tomorrow Olga will take us to meet with the inspector, Olga feels that the inspector will go with us to see Alina. For those of you who do not know what an inspector is, it is required by law for an inspector to go with you to see your child for the first time. She will see how you and the child interact with each other. The inspector will then say yes you can proceed with adoption or no you can not. I don't feel we will have a problem for we all know that Alina wants to come home! Then we will go to the notery to have 3 applications drawn up and notarized. Hopefully we will see Tanya on Tuesday. Olga said she spoke to deputy director and told her we are coming for Tanya, she said Tanya asks every day when is her Momma and Papa coming for her? The deputy director said she didn't know what she was talking about, but now it makes since to her. Dave and I were very happy to hear that she is waiting for us to come. I did find out she as an 18 year old brother. The SDA says this is not a problem, he is to old to be adopted and they don't know where he is anyway. I also found out that in 2006 Tanya's mom left her in the apartment by herself and never came back, and has never been heard of again. So social services came and put her in the orphanage. Well this is all I know for now, David and I are very tired from our 17 hour train ride. We will write some more tomorrow. God Bless.
Quinnams
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success

Good Morning all, I am happy to report that our appointment went very well. I am finding that Ukraine is a very nice Country. The land is beautiful, the people friendly, and the food is the best I ever eat! David and I are off on a train to Donesk to see Alina. I know some of you would like to know about Alina's condition, but all we know is she keeps having her blood cleaned and is doing better as of Angelina. We will know more later when we go to see her. So far this trip has been incredible! God is truly looking out for us and has put an amazing team together for us! It's early in our trip, we are aware things could not go as smoothly as we would like, however we also know things happen for a reason. We will report more later. Keep praying for us!


David- We toured keiv very beautiful place went to park of unknown soldier there is a large flame like in the usa while there newly weds came it is custom for them to place flowers at the flame and take pics it was very cold and icy we also went to WWII park went in large working cathedral, very beautiful went to the fanciest mall I have ever been had supper their. Lunch was also at a very fancy "fast food" restaurant cafeteria. We have tried many new foods since our arrival all very good so far. DQ
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SDA

Good morning everyone. Today is our appointment at SDA. We have to be there at 11:00am our driver will be here at 10:30am to pick us up. There is snow on the ground so this will be interesting our driver drives very fast! I am worried because Angelina won't be with us, but she called me last night and said someone will be with us. She is taking care of our sweet Alina today who is still in the hospital! We will hopefully see Alina tomorrow. I will let everyone know how things went at our appointment. God is in control! Until then peace.
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Good morning

Good morning everyone, David and I just returned from having breakfast at a very fancy cafe. This cafe served a very good breakfast. After breakfast then we decided to walk around a little just to look around. We went underground where one would catch the metro and the people down there were moving very quickly about. They have all sorts of stands set up selling different things. We were looking for a big fur hat for Dave but didn't see any. The exchange rate is very good right now. Our driver took us to a stand that had a good rate. My sister called me last night she misses us and we miss her. It was so nice to here her voice. Thank you sis! Well I will write something a little later. Have a great day and God Bless!
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Re-arranging the luggage at Dulles

Kiev

Hello everyone,
Our flight to Kiev was good. We had vip services so we didn't have to do anything but walk through and pick up our luggage. Our guy took care of all paperwork. Then Angelina had another guy waiting for us to take us to our hotel. Being in Ukraine before I was spoilled with the places I stayed. Not so much with this one. Its ok just really run down. We will make the best of it, this is part of the experience. David and I went down the street to the market and bought some food and drinks. The people where very helpful. I am looking forward to hopfully a good night sleep. I am very tired. If anything intereting happens between now and then we will let you know. God is with us I know this.
We will talk to you all soon. If anyone would like to call us Julie has the number.
Freda and David
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A new day

Hello Friends,
Today we start our journey. Mom and Dad Q took us to the airport this morning. We arrived on time and had some time to spare. We checked on our suit cases and well David did such a good job packing his suit that it weighed 17 pounds to much, what do we do with David's stuff? Well we stuffed our back packs and the other 2 suit case until the seams were busting out! We got that taken care of the off to catch our flight. I tried to update everyone before now, but time got away from me. So we are at JFK now the flight over was good. Now we are awaiting to board our flight to Kiev. Hope all is well with all of you. Please keep us in your prayers, our dreams are finally coming true. God Bless you all!
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