God is good!

We are in Kiev, Ukraine now and its snowing!!!!!

We have already seen God's hand in our travels. Our flight was great! We came to the airport in Portland and were easily checked in and were told that the airplaine that we were to fly on (that fit around 300 people) only had 80 people!!!! It was a great flight from Portland to Amstradam, we each had 4 seats to sleep comfortably on....and the flight went by so fast... The airplaine was great with a tv screen in each seat, that entertained our daughter with cartoons and games...

We arrived in Amstradam safely and only stayed there for about one hour and half before getting on a flight to Kiev. That flight was only 2.5 hours and we slept through all of it...

When we got to Kiev, we got into a HUGE line at the passport control. We were exhausted, and out of no where, in the midst of all these people and lines, one of the airport workers came and directed us to another window where there was no line at all!!!! We had our passports checked and went through to pick up our luggage. After receiveing all of our luggage, we set down to fill out the declaration form, but as soon as we set down, a man came up and asked us if we needed help transporting our luggage...for $30 bucks! Well, what that meant was, "do you want me to take you through customs without declaration form or suitcase checks". We agreed..so basically since arriving in Kiev, it only took us about 15-20 minutes to get from the airplaine and out of the airport!!! God is good! He already took care of every little detail!

We were greeted by our friends from Fathers House and taken to the orphanage... The boys live on the third floor of the building. When we walked in, they were eating...they could not believe what they saw...they looked again and then ran to us!!! They were so excited! It felt great to be reunited with them again!

Then we already had a wonderful dinner made for us at the orphanage, so we all went to eat and drink tea.. Later we took our luggage up to our room, and its was wonderful! Its a huge room with three twin beds, pushed together, and another one further by the wall. It also has a office table with chair and a sofa..oh yea, and a HUGE closet! These people are so sweet!

Today, while the boys were at school, we were driven by one of the staff at Fathers House to the grocery store, where we bought some food. We will be eating at the orphanage when we are here...they have wonderful food and plenty of it...and they only charge 5 grivnyas (about 80 cents) per meal! The dollar keeps growing here, today it was 6.6 grivnyas per 1 dollar.

After the boys got back from school, they all came to our room and all of their friends too..so we had a lot of fun laughfing and talking about life in Amarica...

Tomorrow, we will call our attorney in Ukraine to discuss when we will meet and what is needed for our SDA appointment on Friday.
We give our thanks to God for all His comfort and care for us on this journey...