What Could Go Wrong Goes Wrong

Well, we arrived at the Roanoke airport ready for the challenges we would face once we got to the Ukraine. We were not prepared to have all the problems start right before we even left Roanoke. Judi's name was spelled differently on ticket vs. her passport and the travel agency had voided our return tickets. So, they would not let us get on the plane. The plane left without us to D.C. It looked like we would not get the problems resolved before our SDA appointment in the Ukraine Tuesday morning. Things looked pretty bleak. Then, like an answer to a prayer, our own guardian angel (also named "Judi" who worked behind the United ticket counter) took pity on us and for the next 2 1/2 hours worked with our adoption agency and travel agent to get us to the Ukraine on time. We left for Chicago at 5:00 pm. We are at O'Hare airport and are waiting to board to Munich, Germany at 9:50 pm. We then fly from Munich to Kiev and arrive at Kiev tomorrow at 4:40 p.m. (local time - Ukraine is 7 hours ahead). Our SDA appointment is the next day at 11:30 A.M. What a start, but we hope we have faced the worse right out of the gate (literally). Thanks for all your prayers and our next post will be from the Ukraine (hopefully)