Today we were permitted, along with Russ and Lori, to take the kids out for ice skating and to dinner at McDonalds. The day started out a little scary as we had to spend the first hour with the kids looking for Dusty's and my passports! Everyone was so excited when we found them, even Lena knew how scary that would have been if we'd have lost them. So, for future families coming, make sure you have your passports on you at all times and keep them in the same place at all times! We were able to relax and go to a skating rink called Ice Age. It was a cool place (no pun intended) as it also had bowling, a cafe with great pizza, and other stores. This would be a good place for the people coming over to go to. The ice skating was a lot of fun! Dusty wasn't able to skate since he fractured his back a few months ago, but he enjoyed watching and taking picutres.
Dima was having a lot of fun trying to race everyone!
Lena and I skating together.
After skating we took the kids to McDonalds that was next to a cinema, which was playing the movie "Unstoppable" where parts of the movie were filmed in Tyrone, Pa which will be Eddick and Lena's forever home on January 1st!
After eating at McDonalds, the kids wanted to do something for the orphanage so they decided to get rugs for the social area in both the boys and girls room. The girls were so excited as they couldn't stop touching the soft rug and wanting their pictures taken on it, while the boys, teacher and all were not quite as excited about having a new rug for their room. There are times when I have a hard time understanding this culture, but I try to just go with the flow, which is very important for future families coming over to know. As Americans we ask a lot of questions and wonder why, but this culture does not and can easily get offended.
The next few days leading up to our court date on Friday will be visiting only a few hours each day, we wish it were more!
Hey Dusty and Tina,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great place Ice Age seems like. We will be sure to visit there when we are in Ukraine! Please PRAY as Sasha said we may find out our travel date this week. Please PRAY that it would be SOON!!! :) We'll PRAY that you keep track of your passports from here on out! What did Lori say "As long as you have these two things, you'll be okay" . . . wasn't your passport one of them? Come on Kuntsbecks! Hahaha . . . we're glad you found them. That must have been scary! We love you guys and are praying often for you!
Have a God day!
Joe and Ginger
Haha, I know, I know:) There is even more to that story that we will share when we get back:) I get the feeling that we are all going to be able to tell some interesting stories! We PRAY that it will be that first week back from the break! We need to get all these kiddos home and get the 3 Amigos back together:) Paka!
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