Update

Well, it's now 4:30 here in Ukraine which means the chances that we will hear anything about our interpol today are slim to none. We've learned that Monday is a holiday here so there will be no movement again until Tuesday. Maybe we will have court Wednesday. We are now pretty seriously considering coming home for the 10 day wait. We desperately want to be back in familiar territory but there are cons that come with that decision too. There are no easy answers. I could fill this entire blog with discouragements and frustrations but I refuse to do that nor do you want to read that so here is the good stuff.

Yesterday we did a lot of sight seeing. We walked until we literally couldn't walk anymore but we did have a good time! Here are a few pictures.

They love statues around here. There are various statues all over the place and I have no idea what most of thema are!

This is the bell tower at St. Sophia Cathedral. We got to climb to the top of it!

Here is a bell in the tower that was made in the early 1700's.

This is a view of St. Sophia Cathedral from the bell tower. It is BEAUTIFUL inside but they didn't allow cameras.

This is St. Michaels. Also beautiful inside and we were also not able to take pictures inside. Bummer!


Today we went to visit Oksana and got to see something interesting. A lot of the kids were outside and we went over to the playground where the kids her age were playing. Remember, these are not the kids she is raised with. Because of her medical conditions they have kept her with children who are all around 2 years old. She started watching them on the big playground, got intrigued, and wanted to try it out for herself. We started by putting her on a slide. Then she wanted to get inside and see. Next thing we knew she was crawling through the tunnels! I am so bummed that I forgot my camera! After all of the sightseeing yesterday I downloaded pictures and then forgot to put it back in my bag. We'll try to do it again tomorrow. She did pretty good and had such determination. I really wasn't sure if we were supposed to be letting her do that or not but we had kind of a rough start to our visit and got to see some of her temper so we didn't really care at that point if they would allow it or not as long as she was happily playing. When we saw one of the workers walking toward us we thought for sure we were busted but she just wanted to tell us it was time for Oksana to eat.

Then it was back to groundhog day. Lunch at the apartment, watching Discovery Science (which is the only station in English with anything decent on), dinner out, and bed. Then we do it all over again. You can probaly see why this gets old very fast.