Saturday June 4th in Donetsk

There isn't really a whole lot to report.  Jon and I both have colds so we are trying to take it easy today.  We went out to lunch at a cafe today, not quite sure if it was German or Ukrainian style food.  They did have English on the menus but the waiter didn't speak that much English.  I tried some Borshe.  It wasn't too bad.  The bread is great here, I am practically living on it!  Jon had sausages and potatoes and they were really good as well.  We went into a pharmacy and that was quite interesting.  They have just about everything you need but I believe you have to ask the workers to take the items out of the glass cases for you.  (We didn't buy anything, I was trying to find Neosporin for my poor blistered feet but couldn't find it!)  We look forward everyday to updating the blog and reading the comments from home.  Thanks for all of the support.  I am doing some extensive journaling on our laptop at the apartment.  I wanted to have all the details for our child to read someday.  I might publish most of it when we get back after the trip.  It would have a lot of useful information for other prospective adoptive parents and some interesting cultural perspectives too.  Things are pretty quiet at the apartment and I don't quite know what to do with myself.  I don't think I'll complain as much about the noise level when we get home.  I miss the cartoons blaring in the background and the sound of Kailyn and Hadley's laughter.  Hopefully we will have one more child to add to it all!  We did watch Jimmy Neutron in Russian last night...you know you're missing your kids something awful when you're willing to do that!  Anyway, we'll write more later! 

Summer

Speaking of TV, I also watched American Choppers in Russian. Paul Jr. and Sr. don't seem to argue as much when there voices are dubbed over in Russian. When they describe things as cool, awesome, tight or sick.......the translation always comes across as "good".

JP