Love at the Orphanage

Today was an awesome day spent at the orphanage. The kids are just aching for some parental companionship. When you arrive, they all flock to the doors, yelling your name. You feel like a rock star. They all want to be with you. You get to know them all, "Sasha", "Dima", "Nickoli", "Sergia". It goes on and on. They are such beautiful children and want just one thing: love. It is so humbling. You play with them all and wish you could bring every one of them home with you, but you know that you can't. You see so much promise in their eyes and yet you have to face the reality that many will never reach that promise due to no fault of their own. It is heartbreaking. Below are some photos we took of Vova and some of his pals:

Judi, Vova and Jake

Vova's friends

Vova's room

Judi with Vova and friends After a long day today, we went to an Irish pub for dinner which had American food. We were joined with our traveling couple, Lori and Todd Constanza and their awesome 5 month old son Leo, (they are adopting a 14 year old girl Ana) along with Jason, a police officer from Alabama, who is here to adopt his daughter, Gennia.

They all have been such great friends on this journey and a source of great strength and intelligence. It appears that due to translator error, Vova's championship boxing bout was not scheduled today but sometime in the near future. Today, was merely a sparring match with another finalist. We also learned that Vova has a problem with vision in his right eye. This should not be a problem down the road. As I said before, I cannot attach videos to this blog. I will attach Vova's sparing match, along with videos of the orphanage and interaction with the orphans on my facebook page. God Bless and thank you for all you prayers and support. We need them! Pray for the Director to warm his heart!