All by ourselves!!!!

So today has been a pretty memorable day... we actually made it through the day all alone without our translator who had to go out of town to work on some paperwork. We slept in and grabbed a cab to the orphanage at about 10:30 where after about 10 minutes we were able to find Eli and his group out on a walk... Shana --- in answer to your question... Eli is in a group of about 12 children, all of which are boys except for 2... he is in the youngest group in this home... I think they start taking children at this home after they turn 4... I would have imagined if we wouldn't have come along that in the next few months he would have moved up to the next group.... It looks as if they have kids up until about 7 or 8 at this home... and yes the girls all wear really big bows in their hair! So, after we found Eli we did some more bubble blowing, coloring and walking, except today Eli just wanted us to carry him, he wasn't much in the walking mood... Oh, and we can't forget the snacks... he loves when we bring him snacks... today it was some fruit snacks, some grape juice, which when he finished he kept putting the straw in and out to lick off any last drop he could... oh, and some raisins... the kid loves raisins! After that we were able to get a cab back to the center of town to the resteraunt we normally eat out... we were able to order- well since the same waitress has waited on us the previous 5 times we have eaten there it wasn't very hard... we were able to say spaghetti et serum (which is spaghetti noodles with a little cheese sprinkled on it) and fries... which you say... frees.... oh, and a coca-cola light for me, which is diet coke... after that we headed back to the sanctuary of our room where Kenny did some work for a few hours and I started reading the book "Size 12 isn't Fat" that Beaven gave me... about 1/2 way done with it now... really fun good read! Then we decided to venture out to the internet cafe all by ourselves and were able to get set up no problems... I think we are starting to get accustomed to the Ukraine, only took us 2 weeks! Not that we want to stay here any longer than we have to :)

And... we were feeling a little bad for calling you all slackers but man, glad we did, you all came through... loved reading all the comments... bummer about the 5/6 girls losing in the championship--- but congrats on making it that far! and cracked me up what Jake was going to say in church... the people in the cafe started looking at me I was laughing so loud... oh and Mason- we haven't seen your friend, but if we do we will surely tell him hi for you! And... as for clothes, are apartment in Kiev has a washer so we lucked out in that department, we have done laundry 2x... otherwise we would have been out of options on how to wear things!

As for pictures, of course I have taken a ton... but no way to download them to the computer, but we have another idea, hopefully this weekend we can get them to a developer in Kiev, get them printed then scanned and posted... it is worth a shot, you all need to see how cute this little guy is! Speaking of pictures, either tomorrow or Thursday we will probably be taking him to get his passport picture taken, he will love that because it means another ride in a car outside of the orphanage!

That's all for today... again, we love and miss everyone dearly... looks like around 10 days and counting!!!!! We'd love to make it home for the first Red Sox tourney game next weekend!

All our Love, Kenny and Shannon