Hi everyone
We arrived yesterday at 10:00 am, and thanks to our VIP service, made it through customs and immigration in a matter of minutes! Everything went very smoothly, and the flight was long, but not bad at all (9 hours from New York). The other American couple adopting from our agency was actually sitting in front of us on the plane, which was really neat, so we could hear their story and talk to them! They are about our age and very nice- they already have an older girl picked out for adoption. We then managed to find our driver and he brought us to our adoption agency office (having an adoption agency is the only way to go because of the language and paperwork and insider knowhow). We got settled in at our apartment which is really nice. Then we went to the grocery store to get a few things for dinner, breakfast and our apartment. They really had a lot there- it was a lot like an American big city grocery store! ! We all then went out to lunch with Yuri, the office manager for our adoption agency. We had some good pizza and he explained how our appointment and everything would go. The weather is nice, it is gloomy and cloudy, but about 40. The language is somewhat difficult, especially to read since it is in Cyrillic, but we are getting the hang of the letters more and more.
We hung out the rest of the night at our apartment watching movies, made up for some loss of sleep, and prepared for our appointment in the morning! We are 7 hours ahead of you all at home (in Eastern time). It took us a day or so to get on Ukrainian time- we feel good (except Chris got Kim's cold- sorry mom the airborne didn't work)