So, we aren't getting anywhere about Belle's paperwork, so we will have to just deal with it once we get to Ukraine. Masha is still working on it, but as the phones to the orphanage are broken, its no use for us to keep trying to call there to get info.
One funny thing I found out - the director of Cinderella's orphanage, when speaking to Masha, said that she knew someone was coming to adopt Cinderella, but she wasn't sure if it was "the Americans or the Germans" - I guess we confused her by tag-teaming her with phone calls LOL since "the Germans" and us are now working together!
So, I have a few more things to pack, the clothes are washed and ready to be packed away, travel sized soaps and shampoos are purchased, and I went to Sams Club to get a big 4 pack of single use cameras and a big pack of Lithium batteries for our digital camera. Our biggest problem on our last trip to Ukraine was finding "good" batteries that actually worked - I swear that the shops were repackaging dead batteries and selling them to us stupid Americans. The only batteries that I could find that would work were Energizer brand for high tech devices, and they only sold those in the big western-style stores like Furshets and MegaMarket.
My parents are coming up from Florida the weekend of the 16th to see us off - they are going to take our dog, Harry, with them back to Florida and I'm putting together a packet of info for them - copies of our passports, a list of contacts they may need, and a general itinerary of where we will be and when. We are also giving them a key to our home and one of our swipe cards to get in the gate to the complex. My parents are going to come back up to open up the house and stock the fridge a few days before we return (they will probably head up at the same time we are headed back to Kyiv for the Embassy meetings).
Also meeting with the cat sitter that weekend. She is an awsome chick - we've known each other a long time, and she watched the cats last time we were in Ukraine. She always cuts us a deal too since she knows we are adopting. So, we also have to give her a packet of info in case anything happens with our kitties, get her a key and swipe card for the gate.
Only things left to do is finish cleaning up the house, finish packing, and set up the laptop (install games, put links to the webpages we will need to access for work etc)- oh and finish putting together the photo album for the SDA and judge to look at.
