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....

T minus 28 days and counting...

We received our appointment date from the SDA today.  Vlad emailed us this afternoon to tell us our appointment date is Monday, October 12th at 9 am in Kyiv.  Mostly likely we will begin our travels on Friday, October 9th.  Heather has already contacted Golden Rule Travel to inquire about flights to Ukraine.  We celebrated with a nice dinner out tonight and visited with my parents to tell them the good news.  We are really starting to get excited.  Can't wait for the next 28 days.

Andrew

Dossier Submitted!!!

Hello Everyone,

We received word from Vlad today. Our dossier has been successfully submitted and we expect to get our letter of invitation next week. The countdown to our travel begins soon. We can't wait.

Until next week,
Andrew