No Tax Code but New Apartment

First, a quick paperwork update. We did not get our tax code on Friday. Apparently the lady who normally does this and has a relationship with Oleg is on vacation...of course...so she told her assistant to take care of everything and her assistant isn't. Anyway, Oleg and Nadya have been on her case and she has promised it by Monday morning. I won't hold my breath, but at the same time Monday is our last chance to possibly get out of here by Saturday and not have to spend another weekend here waiting while nothing happens. This is our hope for our timeline:

Monday- tax code and apply for passport
Thursday- get passport and spring Oksana from the orphanage
Friday - get Oksana's medical exam and go to the Embassy and beg them to give us her Visa on the same day
Saturday - PAKA (Goodbye) UKRAINE!

Of course we have NO idea what will really happen but a girl can dream, right?! We have peace knowing that we truly are at the end of this journey. This is probably the hardest thing we have ever done and God has carried us through and we know He will get us to the end!

Yesterday afternoon Lyndi, who helped us with all of our dossier prep through Reece's Rainbow, and her family arrived in Kiev. Last year they adopted a beautiful 6 year old boy with Down Syndrome from Vorzel and this year they are back adopting a 15 year old boy from another region in Ukraine. We met up with them to do some of their souvenier shopping and then went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. Nadya met up with us there. It was just about at that point that the live band came and set up RIGHT behind us! We had to scream to hear each other so we left and went to a coffee house where we sat until they basically shut the lights out on us. Many of you have asked to see Nadya so here is a picture of her (blonde) and Lyndi (brunette with glasses) at the restaurant.


Today we moved to a new apartment...actually we've started calling them our compartments :). We had only reserved the black and white one for a week. The apartment company provided a driver to take us to our new location. It is right down the road but with luggage and all it would have been a pain to walk. Anyway, he loaded us up and then proceeded to drive BACKWARDS for about a 1/4 of a mile up a busy street (luckily this was the weekend or we would have hit about 20 people) until he was where he needed to be to turn off. I almost busted out laughing. Only in Ukraine! We've learned that each apartment has it's pros and cons. This one is right above a coffee house with wifi which is the only reason I have internet right now. It is a cute little place with a washing machine and a drying rack but the air doesn't blow very cold, the TV doesn't work well, and we have to share our iron and ironing board with the room next door! We are in this new apartment until Wednesday and then we move back to the one we just left until Saturday at which point we will hopefully be leaving! Here's our new "home".




Please pray for Monday. We'll let you know as soon as we hear anything.