livoberezhna where we stayed last time we were in ukraine in 2006, and only
$50 a night for 2 bedrooms.
booked the airline tickets home at the delta office - unfortunately there
were no available tickets until sunday for all 4 of us, so we fly through
brussels to atlanta on sunday morning, arriving in atlanta at 2:15 pm. price
wasnt bad either - less than $3000 for all of us.
medicals went ok today - met some other facilitators and american families
and their children. found out that the us embassy pasted some new rule about
the vaccine schedule of kids immigrating via adoption - they must be up to
date with their vaccines according to the us schedule, not the ukrainian
schedule. so that was an extra $100 in vaccines as the girls were not up to
date. but at least maybe they can start school before i can reschedule their
pediatritian appointment since all i needed for the school is a vaccine
record. the girls were great, both behaved and took the shots with no
problems.
nina had a stern talking to with marina and katya about how to behave and
how the behavior marina has been showing is not acceptable - she said alot
more too that was bordering on mean, but it worked- we have not had one fit
since nina talked to them. not all day. not when marina was told she had to
get shots, not when we had to wait many times for documents, not when she
found out our flight to america was delayed. not once. she has been
absolutely a doll since then.
also went to the embassy for katyas fingerprints - these are required on all
kids over 13. while we were there they also went ahead and scanned the girls
visa photos (we had lots of extra photos made in kirovograd), and they said
that they could have our visas ready tomorrow afternoon since scanning the
photos takes the most time usually. they also told us to ignore our
appointment time and show up at 8 or 9 am for the actual visa interview.
finally, we went to the translation bureau to give them all the documents to
translate into english for us. the facilitators always use these services
since it is just so many documents that need to be done in such a short
time.
so, we will enjoy a few days in kyiv and then leave here sunday early
morning!
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