SDA Appointment Take 2!

Today was our SDA (State Department of Adoptions) appointment Take 2!  It took all of 10 minutes and was a success!!!  We were shown the files of Katya and Mariana but of course being that they are in Russian we cannot read them so the social worker gave us about a 2 minute synopsis for each girl and then we signed a paper saying that these were the two girls that we wanted to adopt.  And that was it!
Yup we waited a whole week for this :)

Here Ty and I are having a celebratory cup of coffee and almond danish.

                            

Then we did some sightseeing as we waited for some new friends to meet us.

St. Sophia's Cathedral, downtown Kyiv.

St. Sophia's Square

We have been very blessed on this trip to meet many other Americans.  Until you have been in another country you can't appreciate how great it is to be able to "hang out" with families who speak your language!  One such family that we have met are here on their third Ukraine adoption!  They are soon to be a family of 8 just like us...  AND they will have 2 boys and 4 girls, just like us!  

We met up in Kyiv and had much to share with each other over a very nice Ukrainian meal.  

For all my friends who always post pictures of their meals on Face Book, I thought of you when I took these pictures.

Here was Ty's bacon wrapped stuffed chicken with grilled vegetables. (I snagged a few veggies before the pic)

I enjoyed zucchini pancakes... for those who know me, this definitely was not enough.  (The picture on the menu looked much bigger).

After dinner we walked around the city a bit and visited some more.  It was a wonderful afternoon!  

Then we made the trip back home.  We are staying in Pertrivske, so that we can be close to the girls.  After we got back we called them and we were able to hang out in their home and spend time speaking with their wonderful grandmother (she is actually their housemom... but they call her grandmother).

We have not been able to post everything in detail for reasons that I cannot explain here but we have had many great visits and some fun times with the girls.  

I believe it is fitting to end this post with a picture of our beautiful Mariana and Katya.