Progress

I don't have much to say today. It was a long day of driving around in the car, meeting with lawyers/notaries, visiting buildings, completing more paperwork, waiting, and some more waiting. After all our days of walking in Kiev, it felt too sedentary for me! I fell asleep in the car on three different occasions. We did get all of our pressing questions answered and did complete the necessary paperwork. Thank you for praying!

Angelina will soon submit our petition for our court date. We anticipate it will be at least three weeks before our court date occurs. So, as it stands now we hope to travel back to Donetsk in the middle of November at the earliest. Of course, we're praying for sooner because at the conclusion of that trip we'll get to bring Irina home for good!  Tomorrow, Friday, we'll go to visit Irina at the orphanage for a little before we say our goodbye's and begin our long trip home.

Here are some photos from our day today. The first five photos are from Gorlovka near our hotel. This area of Eastern Ukraine is a lot more soviet influenced.

 Then we were picked up and driven to Donetsk. In 2012 the UEFA European Championship Men's Football (soccer), also known as the Euro Cup, was played in Poland and Ukraine at 8 different stadiums. In Donetsk, they built a brand new stadium for the event that holds 69,000 people. We drove by there today on our way out of town. It is quite impressive!

Being silly!

I'm so glad to be here and thankful and humbled by how God has so clearly been present. I'm so torn because of course it will be hard to say goodbye to Irina, but I'm so anxious to get home to our boys! (Not to mention I can't wait to eat some of my homemade wheat bread and LOTS of vegetables.)