We have reached day 10 of our ten day wait after court! The last ten days have felt very long at times, but also easier than some since we knew when this part would end. Tomorrow we are supposed to travel to a rural village near the border of Moldova with our facilitator to try and get our girl's new birth certificate. We have been told that it is such a rural village there are times where they don't have electricity or a working database to produce the birth certificates. Please pray with us that everything will be working tomorrow and we will be able to get it without any hiccups! Once we have her birth certificate we will be able to apply for her passport here in Odessa, which we also hope to do tomorrow. Lastly, since our wait is up after today, tomorrow should be the day that we can finally take her from the orphanage to be with us for good! If we are unable to get back early enough with her birth certificate though we will have to wait until Monday for gotcha day.
Once she is with us we plan to travel back to Kiev to get started on some of the immigaration work while we wait for her passport to be ready (which can take up to two weeks but we pray it will be much less). Train tickets between Odessa and Kiev can be hard to get in the summer, especially last minute, so we pray there will be enough available for us on the day we need them. We have also started seeing what it looks like to buy plane tickets home at the last minute, and the results have not been good. We need to decide if we want to purchase tickets now while we are still a few weeks out and hope we can change them easily if necessary, or just wait and pray we will be able to get tickets that we are comfortable with when the time comes... For now, we are just thankful we have gotten to the next part of the journey and greatly appreciate your prayers and good thoughts for everything to go well tomorrow, and that our day will end with our girl in our arms for good.
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