Day 31 Tuesday

Tuesday.

Today was very very “fun” and long day. It all started at 7 am. I left orphanage and went to Kiev to meet with Valentine. 

Now , when I live in the orphanage property, I dont' have to walk to catch marshrootka. You can see from a window, if marshrootka had pass, and it's 10 steps from orphanage gate. This makes so much easier and takes less time to get to Kiev. 

After I met with Valentin, we went straight to ZAGS to get new birth certificates, they opened in 9 am.. after waiting another 1 hour we been told that birth certificates can’t be made because boys belongs to different ZAGS – we need to go there to start process and sign boys out(or something like this). At 10 am we headed the other way, and good thing it was not that far, it's kind of different county, but almost same area. Around 10:30 we arrived and after waiting in line another 30 min, they decided that they need to have 2 copies of our paperwork notarize, not one. 

 It took another 2 hours to do that.

 Then we went back to finish process. We waited another 2 hours and got that done. So at 2 pm we went back to ZAGS that we visited in the morning to try get new birth certificates. 

Thanks God they told us good news: “New Birth certificates will be ready today in 2 hours “At 4pm we got them. Now we have birth certificate where we are parents of our boys. It does feel so good :)

Then we went to Tax service to start process with changing boys names for passports. At 6:30pm we were done. It was a lot of running and waiting, and just stress.After I finished with Valentin,  I went to Downtown to find internet and talk to my wife. In the downtown everything was closed and treets full of people and fun...  many subway stations were closed and I couldn’t get home very easy. So I finally got home at 10:30pm.