Great news!!! Today we learned that our court date for adopting Inna and Rada will be this thursday 10/27/2011 at 1 pm. The girls were very happy to hear this since today all but one of their friends being adopted to the USA left from Yuglegorsk no longer orphans. Emily, Rada and Inna remained behind. Emily gets to leave in just a few days but Inna and Rada must wait 10 additional days after the court adoption decree is made official (in Ukraine there is a 10 day appeal following the courts initial ruling on adoption). Both Emily and her Dad were bummed out not getting to leave today, but in just 2 days she is out forever!!!
We enjoyed out time together today first getting to take the girls to eat at a pizza joint named "Chilantona's." This was the first time Cari and I were able to take our girls to eat since arriving. The other families were able to do so following their court hearings. For us, we hope to get one more outing after our court hearing on thursday. Later we went to the orphanage and played Ukrainian monopoly with Inna and several others. Rada and I initially played piho minho together then she decided to play on the ipad. She really likes the casting crowns music videos.
Tomorrow we move to an apartment being vacated by Bob and Holly Grizenko. All of the other families will be scrambling to get birth certificates, passports and travel to Kiev in order to go home. Jack will have to travel north of Kiev to get Emilies birth certificate then come back the same night. What a brutal trip that will be. Jack is a great guy who will sacrifice whatever he has to for his new daughter.
I get to fly home on saturday, but will be very disappointed to miss "liberation day" with the girls. Also the girls will go to Sevestopal for one week while they wait for Inna's background check to be completed as soon as the 10 days is up. Everyone is very excited.
Ray
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