Wednesday, March 16, 2011

 

The picture on the left is St. Sophia's Cathedral. It sits on top of the hill behind our apartment ringing light and lovely chimes each hour.

The picture on the right was taken this morning about 5 minutes after we took the first one. Both places are on the walk from our apartment to the adoption center where we had our appointment this morning. We will have the distinct pleasure of seeing this statue again on Monday! Yes, due to the delay in one signature from a local official we have another appointment scheduled at the adoption center. These things happen. We pray, we trust and we make them interesting blog fodder!

Ah, no, those two handsome guys are not the local color! It's Dave and Lucas standing in the foreground of the river Dnipro, a huge waterway that flows from Russia through Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Another big adventure today took us from our apartment to the 'super' market. We have not been in a grocery this huge where every sign, label and price sticker is written not only in another language but another alphabet. A short list took us a good hour.

Add to that LA size traffic and we were gone a total of almost 3 hours for a 7 mile drive. The orphanage driver's name is Sergei and he drove us there and back. He deftly drove the tighest lines, swerving like a ballerina and jumping into u-turns while not one swear word or sound passed his lips. A couple of times we cheered "Sergei aht-pot!" (Sergei super!) He laughed.

And, finally for today - the reason we are we here - he's the one in the middle holding the rabbit:



That's all for now.