Epperly Adoption

Let me start by saying that we are sorry for the delay on this post. We have been moving full steam without a lot of down time or web access. Here is the update:

Some terms to help reading:

• SDA = Federal Adoption Agency
• Kiev = Capital city and home of the SDA
• Gorlivka = City where we  will be staying for a while
• Makeevka = City where the orphanage is (about 40 mins from Gorlivka)

1/21/2009

• 11:00AM – SDA appointment. The first dossier the showed us was him (Jonas). We looked a few more children, but felt drawn back to the first one.  Here is the door to the SDA office.
  
• 11:30AM – The search for train tickets. We wanted to get there as fast as we could, so we went all over town trying to find tickets. All of the seats were sold out (which meant we would have to wait until tomorrow to leave), but 3 tickets freed up at the last minute. We ran back to our place, packed our bags, and jumped in a taxi to the train station.
• 6:40PM - We left Kiev on a 14 hour train ride to Gorlovka (Vanya and Kostya’s home town). It was HOT in the train. Bathing suit hot.