Updated schedule

Breaking news: no interview today after all. Tomorrow morning an interview at the orphanage and another visit with the children. To protect the privacy of kids that may not end up being ours, we will leave out a lot of detail about them during this initial period. I am definitely finding this an uncomfortable place to be in, to have actually talked with them and not to be able to say that these are our children, especially after hearing some heartbreaking stories of adoptions that didn't work out (as well as happy ones) from our very experienced facilitator on the train. God sure feels close in this, though; he has brought us this far through a lot of details, and we are trusting him to work out the rest of the details.

So we have all evening to chill in our air conditioned room, although we do need to go out and buy some water. It feels like our first chance so far to relax. (We did have some discretionary time on the weekend, but we very wisely used it to sightsee in Kiev with the Blakers since it would be our only chance.) We are thankful to have Wifi in our room in the town of Severodonetsk like we did in the big city.