Monday, March 26, 2007

Pollen, housing and travel

Pollen counts are in the 2600's today - "high" is considered in the 120's. We are 200 times that right now, and this is expected to go on for at least another month of so.

Here are photos of our car and my work parking lot- notice the yellow "dust" on everything. That is what is currently going into my lungs and causing my nose and throat to swell shut :(




In travel news, it looks like we will have an appointment the second week in June according to current estimates and timetables - but as with anything in Ukraine, this can change at any second. We are considering flying in to Germany to meet up with Cinderella's host family and drive all together to Ukraine. Its a 2 day drive, but it would be neat to see all the countries along the way and get to know Carola and Dieter better - they are after all going to be Cinderella and Belle's Aunt and Uncle now! It is also much cheaper to fly to Germany than to Ukraine, so that will hopefully save us a few hundred dollars.

The CD of photos that Dieter made for us arrived today in the mail and Andrew and I had so much fun looking through all the photos! Cinderella is so small in some of the photos, and we also found some of her friends in the background of many of the photos. We learned alot about her too - what she likes to do, what she likes to eat (mainly swimming and eating icecream based on the photos!)etc.

Housing news, we are making a dent in our packing and are still not 100% sure where we are even moving to. The woman who owns the one townhouse pictured in the previous post is kinda hard to "read". She is continuing to show the townhouse to other families even though we have our paperwork turned in to her and we have agreed on the deposit and rent...so we called the man who owns the townhouse two doors down who posted a "for rent" sign up. Its the exact same layout and features, but slightly cheaper rent price and he seems more willing to negotiate and be flexible with us about deposits. If all else fails, we have the Post apartments to move in to.