Correction

Okay, I'm back. Well we should be able to upload our photos after all.

The other guy/man living here has high speed connection on his phone and he let us upload the pics to another site and soon I will give you the link to view the images. We didn't put all of them up there for sake of time, but there are over 150 to look at.

Anyway, I need to correct an entry I made about the guy who is staying here. He apparently has been here before, but only to submit his documents - NOT to try to adopt a child. He has NEVER been denied as we were told, and seems to be doing everything by the book and unfortuneately for him, seems to be getting more of the run-around than we have experienced. I admire his patience and heart for these kids. I pray that he has success as we have, and can provide a good future for two more children.

So, anyway, dinner was good and I feel better with some food in my tummy.
We really did have a good time today despite the police scare. Olga explained to us that the police pick out Americans here and ocassionaly give them a hard time in order to get "some money" (paid off) by Americans with "big money". Not too comforting is it? We also got stopped at the gas station by another officer who made the taxi driver open up the trunk and Olga thought then that we would have to pay the police, but God is good and they let us go without any trouble :)

We managed to get Marina's passport and her picture looks so cute and of course it was neat to see her name on something official and spelled in English. We'll show it to her tomorrow. Now the only thing left to do is wait and on Monday we will go to the orphanage with another translator, the one who first brought us here, and we will meet with the doctor at the school and get Marina's full medical history. After we get back to Kiev, we'll get it translated so our pediatrican can go over it and at least know some history on her. They'll tell us what vac's she has had and all the illnesses and diagnosises (sp?) she's had, etc. So, that will be nice to know all that kind of information. Up to this point, no one has told us any of that. It would really be nice to know some background on her parents, but of course that is unknown by the school. Oh well, I know God has a plan for her life and that he will guide our steps regarding her health.

Here is a link to our photos Finally!!!

http://www2.snapfish.com/share/p=514191192822705091/l=312539488/g=81290099/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB