Not Long Now...

Hello again! It's Lori, and I'm leaving tomorrow to go to Cincinnati, and then Sunday, Marnie (Trevor's sister) and I take off from the Cincinnati airport at 2:55 p.m. We'll be in Kiev about 11:30 a.m. their time on Monday. More jet lag. :-)

The schedule from there looks like this:
--Monday: 7:00 p.m. train overnight to Donetzk
--Tuesday: 7:00 a.m. arrive in Donetzk; get Cole, his Ukrainian passport and birth certificate; finish paperwork; overnight train back to Kiev
--Wednesday: Embassy doctor visit to clear him to come to the US as a citizen
--Thursday: Embassy--get his US passport
--Friday: 7:55 a.m. 2 hr flight to Budapest; 2 hr layover and then the long flight to JFK in NY; 1.5 hr layover, customs and immigration (where they open his documentation and he's admitted into the US); arrive back in Cincinnati at 6:55 p.m.
--Saturday: back to Findlay and finally HOME!!!

So yeah, I'll have my hands on him in a matter of days now, and we'll actually be home in a week from now. So awesome!!!!

Please pray for safe and smooth travels, stamina for a physically demanding trip, and for Cole's transition from orphanage life to life with his forever family. This is going to shake up everything he knows and might be really really hard for him, or it might not be too big of a deal. You just never know, but we're expecting it to be hard, and if it ends up not being so bad, then fine. Just imagine being little like that, not speaking the language, and having to just deal with it as things come. So please pray that he'll feel some peace throughout all of these changes.

Thanks so much, everyone, and thanks for all the encouragement through your comments and emails. Trevor will more than likely be updating while I'm gone; I don't anticipate us having any time to find an internet cafe this time around, so Trevor can give you the latest after we've talked on the phone. Peace out. :-)