Day 31

There are apricots and green apples almost everywhere around here. They are very small because the trees are not thinned out. I see a lot of folks eating them or collecting them to sell. At Sarah's orphanage, there are a few trees and she likes to pick the fruit off them. She doesn't eat the mini-apricots but she does like the mini-apples. Jenn can't stand them but I enjoy them because Sarah does. Her orphanage is installing another play structure. I wonder if our donation helped? We spoke with the director and we need to finalize on our plans for Monday as she will be out of the office for part of the day. But with Sarah, we played with the sand, played a bit of tag, hug out, watched videos on the camera, and I got to swing around the yard.

This morning we hung out with Kaitlyn; both in the sports room and outdoors. She likes to play with the sand toys and she showed us how strong she is on the monkey bars. It made Jenn's heart skip a beat when Kaitlyn would climb up and slip down between the bars. And she wouldn't take our help. We also got a chance to see our friends, talk about adoption stuff, share tips, and learn a whole lot more! They had their court hearing yesterday and it went well for them. We picked up some toys for the girls. We have our tickets for the return train ride to Kiev and thank God that we will be by ourselves in the cabins. We have two: one for the boys and one for the girls. Since we would rather not share with strangers, we have to wait another day in Kramatorsk. But that's okay, we are still on time for leaving Ukraine on August 1st and it save a bit of money this way. God bless!