I Got Nothin...

Howdy!

I don't have anything cleaver or even new to say but thought I should at least get word out that we are alive and well.  Still camping out in Kiev waiting official word on our next SDA appointment.  In the mean time we have tried to do a bit of the tourist stuff.

What that consists of is some shopping in a giant underground mall of sorts.  I have come to figure out that there is a whole other city, under the city.  I hope to not be here long enough to actually figure it all out.  We also went up to a palace with beautiful views of the city.  Walked past yet more spectacular architecture, back to Independence Square and a metro ride home.  Except I took us the wrong way on the metro, two stops the wrong way meant 4 stops back the other.  Today we made our way to two separate cathedrals.  One we went inside, very ornate and beautiful yet dark and sad.  We walked a bit through an area we hadn't made it to yet.  Then back home.  I think I will take up running when I get home, we walk so much here that it might just be the little kick start I need.

I am good for one outing a day.  I can't just sit here, waiting!  And for Jamie, all the idle time is killing him.  We have both been doing a lot of reading.  Now he is fighting a bit of a cold, praying Lily and I don't get it.  Jamie's big activity each day is to cook for all of us.  I haven't made a single meal since we arrived.

It snowed just a bit last night but it is supposed to be nice for the rest of the week, all the way into the mid 30's.  Can't wait.  If it makes you Colorado folks feel any better, it has been a bit breezy here as well.  Not the crazy wind that you have been having.

We saw our 1st real snow shovel today.  Not just a piece of plywood on a pole, but a real snow shovel.  Someone should work on importing snow shovels.

We have been trying to work any connection we can to get names and locations of any little girls who are registered and ready for adoption so that when we go back to the SDA we have some information of our own rather than just relying on their books.  We are really praying for clarity, that we will know when we see her, all of us, at the same time.

Hey, Bill & Karen...we found potato chips!  Real potato chips!  They were good:)

That is all for now, as soon as we know anything official we will pass it on.

Until then....