What I thought was going to be an hour ride was actually two hours one way. And that was with our nice driver , Victor, who I know trained with the Indy car drivers. If traffic is going too slow, no problem, the side of the road will do for passing all the cars in front of you and then you are in the lead. When you do decide to pass on the correct side and someone is coming, well that is no problem either because when you have a small car it will fit in to the smallest space even if you do about rear-end someone in the process. Needless to say, we were thankful to get back to our hotel safe and sound.
We were able to get the new birth certificates and the tax codes changed with no problems. One hurdle down and a few more to go. On Monday we will pick up the kids and have their picture taken for the passports. The passport processing will not be done until at least Friday. Please pray for this process to go quickly. Once we have the passports then we will travel back to Kiev with the children. They will both have to have medical exams and then we will meet with the US Embassy. The following day we will pick up our documents from the US Embassy and we are free to leave Ukraine. We can't wait.
~Tina
Random pictures from today (out the car window).
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| I guess the car was going a little faster than my camera could shoot but there are cows out in this field for my little guys back home. |
Cool. Almost home. Then, the fun begins in earnest. I remember those last days in Ukraine. They were hectic. We got the decree. We were on the road all day the next day - I mean from who-knows-when in the morning till, actually, about the same who-knows-when time of the morning the following day as we drove from the region to Kyiv and, there, hurried around doing more stuff. After the ten day wait, we were out of the country within days - Ukraine couldn't get rid of us fast enough. However, that was also when someone noticed that our documents had been mistranslated - so we had to fix that. Then, at the doctor's exit visit, the doctor discovered that our son's paperwork had listed him as either having or having been exposed to TB - she couldn't tell which. So, that caused extra work back in the states. Anyway, that's all behind us now, just a fond memory, and we're all good.
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ReplyDeleteI was laughing out loud on this post.. Memories!! I used to say a LOT of Dear Lord Jesus please don't let me die prayers! LOL Aye Ukraine Drivers!
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