Sunday and Monday

We had a great weekend. Katya just amazed us with her English skills. She has been working hard this past year on English. She switched into translator mode a few times while we were talking to different people. We spent the day Sunday with her and thought about everyone at home celebrating Easter. It was hard to miss Easter morning with our kids. Grandma did a great job as always, but we really wished we could have been there. And now Alex's birthday is coming up on Thursday. That is definitely one downside to adoption. We have now spent a total of almost 3 months in ukraine over 4 different trips. That is a significant amount of time away from family, although the first trip we had Alex with us so we were all together. We feel like we finally have this place figured out. Our language skills are coming along, we feel very comfortable here and now we will be coming home soon and we don't have a pending return trip planned, so it is a little sad.

Katya is ready to go. She has her bag packed and while she is sad to leave her friends behind, she is so excited to finally be coming home.

We are working on a few things that may get us home a little early. It all depends on getting some paperwork done on Thursday and flight schedules this weekend or early next week, but it may happen.

Julia and I have been picking a new restaurant every day. The food here is so good. The restaurants all have accomplished chefs and we get gourmet, upscale restaurant food here for like $6-8 dollars per person. Amazing. Our apartment is great, it is very clean, comfortable and is on the top story of a nice building and our balcony looks out over the park and Opera House. (see our picture page www.wadeandjuliaweston.com/main/page22.html )