Sunday, September 20, 2009

Flights Booked!

Friday I booked the flight arrangements for our trip to Kyiv, Ukraine (aka Kiev Ukraine). It felt good to have the last stateside step completed.  We did use Golden Rule travel to book the flights.  They specialize in missionary, humanitarian and adoption fares.  We used Eldo Miller, based out of the Hutchinson, Kansas office.  When I told him our address for the airline, he said "no way"  he knew right where we lived because he used to live near New Holland in Fivepointsville.

We leave on Friday October 9th from Philadephia then on to Frankfurt,Germany and then to Kyiv, Ukraine.  We are flying on Lufthansa, which makes Andrew happy because they fly Airbuses and Andrew thinks they are better than Boeings....We'll see what he thinks after our 8 hour and 3 hour flights....

I finally have bought everything I need to start packing, so we are going to see if we can fit everything into our three bags....it might be difficult.

Our new-found adoption friends from Florida have also been given an appointment date on Oct 12th as well.  If anyone is interested in following their journey, check out http://www.thewainwrightfamily.blogspot.com/ .  They also have links to many other adopting families, that are traveling or are about to travel to Ukraine.

Thanks for all the well wishes.  Your support and interest in our adoption journey means very much to us.

T minus 19 days and counting....

7 comments:

Donna said...

Good luck , I'll be keeping track of you guys!! We are about to start our homestudy so next year we hope to be where you are now - I'm already so nervous! LOL!!

Ann Gerz said...

Congratulations!!! Barry and I are so happy for you! We will pray for safe travel. If you can, keep us updated while in Kiev.

Anonymous said...

I'm so excited. Christmas will be really special this year!
Mom H

Cindy said...

We'll be there one week ahead of you and then down to Odessa. We LOVE Lufthansa and are flying all the way with them. They were our favorite airline when we traveled in August. I'll be following your journey!

Gammaches said...

Lufthansa is our favorite airline as well:) Only 9 more days til you're off!

Anonymous said...

Barry and I will be praying you have a safe trip. We are so happy for you guys! Can't wait for you to meet our little Madison and to meet your new additions, as well! Take care!
Jen Gerz

Unknown said...

Wishing for a wonderful experience for all of you and looking forward to following along prayerfully in your journey!

Meenu