WE'RE GOING HOME
Posted by The Pizzi's at 1/16/2008 10:08 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
just not Thursday! (more on that later) First a little dancing..... We have it! We have it! Her passport and her visa!!! (The all important golden challis)
Today started early- with us sitting in the medical center at 7:45am. At 9:30 we were finally invited in to see the doctor.... but to pass the time during this wait- we met Steve and Melissa (all you FRUA folks will know him at the guy who is adopting the three little boys- with the fabulous YouTube video- and the boys are even more adorable in person!) It was pure coincidence- and we had a great chat! The physical was less than exciting. He measured and weighed Katya, checked her lymph nodes and pronounced her healthy. ($85 for that?!?!) Then we had to wait on the paperwork - but we were on our way by 10am.
Straight to the embassy- we headed up to an empty window, where a clerk was waiting. She took all our paperwork and told us to wait 10 minutes. In 10 minutes, a consular officer invited us to a little office. He went through the papers, asked a few basic questions and said if we were willing to wait 30 minutes- we could leave with her visa. We waited and before 11am, we walked out with her visa. It was clearly a unique day- as he said the system wasn't overly busy and could process it fairly quickly! YAHOO- TRIUMPH- going home!!!!!!!
Until we called the airlines! No seats available out of Kiev on Thursday- 1st class only (only an additional $5000!!!) NOT! So we accepted seats for early Friday morning- and called our other airline who will take us from London to Dallas.... eh, they have no seats on Friday- maybe we should consider Thursday or Saturday. ARGHHH!!!! However, in our rounds of escalations, we stumbled across a senior manager, who found it in her heart to find us some seats- and we will be on home ground by dinner on Friday!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow we will clean up the apartment and pack everything- getting rid of all the excess food and stuff we have accumulated over the past 5 weeks. Then we'll try to purge some of Katya's eternal energy. Maybe a good nights sleep will help her on the flight. Oro pro nobis (pray for us)!
We will update the blog again Saturday when we get home- and tell you how it was! Otherwise- thank you for reading- we hope you found it helpful and insightful!!! Good luck to you all!
Today started early- with us sitting in the medical center at 7:45am. At 9:30 we were finally invited in to see the doctor.... but to pass the time during this wait- we met Steve and Melissa (all you FRUA folks will know him at the guy who is adopting the three little boys- with the fabulous YouTube video- and the boys are even more adorable in person!) It was pure coincidence- and we had a great chat! The physical was less than exciting. He measured and weighed Katya, checked her lymph nodes and pronounced her healthy. ($85 for that?!?!) Then we had to wait on the paperwork - but we were on our way by 10am.
Straight to the embassy- we headed up to an empty window, where a clerk was waiting. She took all our paperwork and told us to wait 10 minutes. In 10 minutes, a consular officer invited us to a little office. He went through the papers, asked a few basic questions and said if we were willing to wait 30 minutes- we could leave with her visa. We waited and before 11am, we walked out with her visa. It was clearly a unique day- as he said the system wasn't overly busy and could process it fairly quickly! YAHOO- TRIUMPH- going home!!!!!!!
Until we called the airlines! No seats available out of Kiev on Thursday- 1st class only (only an additional $5000!!!) NOT! So we accepted seats for early Friday morning- and called our other airline who will take us from London to Dallas.... eh, they have no seats on Friday- maybe we should consider Thursday or Saturday. ARGHHH!!!! However, in our rounds of escalations, we stumbled across a senior manager, who found it in her heart to find us some seats- and we will be on home ground by dinner on Friday!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow we will clean up the apartment and pack everything- getting rid of all the excess food and stuff we have accumulated over the past 5 weeks. Then we'll try to purge some of Katya's eternal energy. Maybe a good nights sleep will help her on the flight. Oro pro nobis (pray for us)!
We will update the blog again Saturday when we get home- and tell you how it was! Otherwise- thank you for reading- we hope you found it helpful and insightful!!! Good luck to you all!
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