Just Waiting

Hello everyone,

I want to publicly thank Anna our awesome 17 year old for doing such an outstanding job of keeping the blog up to date.

As you know our visit with the SDA (for the Ukranian noviest, that is the govt agency that says yes or no) went very well. We had the government official read the entire form on Chrisitina's family. Her father was born in 1951 and died in 2004, no information on her mother, and she has a 19 year old sister somewhere.

We have seen everything in Kiev within walking distance and are getting very anxious to get to Zaporizhzhya and see Christina. We have spoken to her on the phone several times and she really seems excited. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.

Our plan today was to go to orphanage 21 and visit many of the children that had come to the Hope for Orphans of the World program. At first we were told we could come, so we went and bought Alla (the director) some flowers while Ben Robinson (a facilitator) got us a driver. When we showed up at the car, Sasha (our facilitator) was there. Sasha called Alla once more and we were told we could not come. We were incredibly disappointed. My apologies to everyone who wanted us to deliver hugs and kisses to the children there.

Thank you all for tracking our journey and for caring for the children of Ukraine.
Ron.