40 days in Ukraine

Friday, June 29 was 40st day in Ukraine for Sergey.

38 Tuesday he received passports, and dropped off all the paperwork at US embassy.

Last notes from Sergey:

39-Wednesday

Today is a day, when we hopefully will get all paperwork done and will get visa’s, because on Thursday and Friday is day off due to holiday. So I woke up at 5:30 am got in the shower, had coffee and at 6 am woke boys up. Funny that Danik woke up without any problem but Stasik I couldn’t wake him up. He is sure is a good sleeper. :) As soon I put Stasik on his feet he falls right back to bed, and I would repeat that again and again and he was back in his bed in few seconds. So it took me a while to wake him but I got that done.

Then we left Petrovsky and headed to embassy. At 9 am we got some paperwork and went straight to hospital for medical exam. There were so many people waiting that would took us a whole day to do that, but thanks God they have policy and they process adoptions - without any line. Took us about hour and half, after that we ran to orphanage to finish process and officially move kids from Father’s house, and at 2 pm came back to embassy. So after 3 pm we got Visa’s thanks God, and started big process of packing. Airline tickets for 5:30 am so I have to be at airport on 3 am and it is 1 hour to get there. So I started packing as soon I got to orphanage, than I took some pictures with boys and their friends. At 9:30 pm boys went to sleep and at 10 pm I did too.

40-Thursday

Today I was supposed to get home… but didn’t work the way I expected. Well let’s start from the beginning. At 1 am I woke up and at 1:30 I woke up kids, and again I couldn’t get Stasik to wake up that easy but by 2 am we got that done. So as soon I happily entered airport and started to look at the monitor in order to find out which window I needs to go to.. I saw red writing next to my flight number which said Cancelled. My flight was canceled and here I am standing with kids at the airport not knowing what to do. Later I went to Lufantha window. There were huge line of people, but I passed all of them and was one of first ones. They change my flight number to different rout that was only 1 hour difference. So I waited and as soon as window to Amsterdam opened I went there, but my tickets were on waiting list, and if they would have any available seats they would let me know. After waiting 3 hours they didn't do anything for us. Sadly I have to go back to window and ask them if they give us different flight. After some waiting they got us next day flight at 6:40 am to Munich and from Munich to San Francisco. I was happy about that. Yes, I would prefer to be home with my wife, and kids, but I am happy that I did get another flight. Company also gave us room in expensive hotel, paid for all food and taxi. I was happy and my kids got some rest. This flight looks like even better because I have only on stop instead of 2. Maybe that is God’s way to give us better flight.

Also today Danik started to have a high fever.  I had to run to pharmacy few times, and tried to control it. Thank you everyone who prayed, his fever went down before we boarded our flight, and never came back. He never had strep throat like Stasik did, and Danik did have all the same symptoms as Stasik.