Good Day!

Today we left the apartment we have been staying at to move to the local YWAM training facility. This facility is brand new and have been gracious enough to allow us to stay here until we leave Terinopol. It is also nice because it is very clean, has laundry facilities, and wireless internet! Here is a view looking up to the balcony on the 3rd floor of our previous domain.

This morning we were able to meet with the head judge of this region. We submitted the paperwork for our adoption, and requested a court date next week. He immediately said that he has many pressing matters to attend to, and would not be able to give us a date until sometime in July. Valery continued to ask him if we would consider sooner, then I began to speak to him in Ukrainian. He soon began to warm up after hearing about my Ukrainian roots (and then wanted to know what kind of plant I was), and proceeded to fit us into the courts' schedule next Thursday or Friday. We will be able to confirm this on Monday.

Today our documents were submitted to the SDA in Kiev (YEAH!), and will be returned to Valery on Wednesday afternoon. Please pray that this happens. What this means is that we should be able to come home next weekend.

The fun part of the day began when we picked up Ruslan, Yuri, and Alena and took them bowling for the first time. After that, we went out to the Flamingo Restaurant and had a pizza dinner. I enjoyed teaching them how to bowl, and we all had a very good time.

Enjoy these bowling photos:
Alena with her bowling ball!


Yuri is excited about his score!

Checking out the bowling balls.

Yuri's sprained ankle doesn't keep him from bowling!

Elyse and Emma having fun at camp! How cool is technology? We found this picture of Elyse off the internet on Spring Hill Camps website out of Indiana!