Then there were three...days that is!

We got information about our apartment in Kiev today.  

This studio (one-room) apartment is situated in the historical city centre; 200 m from St. Michael’s Square and 250 m from St. Sophia’s Square; 8-9 minutes on foot to Andriyivsky Descent, Khreshatyk (Kievan central street) and Independence Square. You will have restaurants, cafes, pubs, night clubs, shops and brand boutiques in the reach of a hand.

The parking in the yard. The front door has combination lock. Cozy and clean apartment with new furniture, recently renovated. The room has a comfortable double bed and a folding double sofa; the kitchen is fully equipped. The bathroom is equipped with a shower.

 From here you can easily get to any place in Kiev. First of all our METRO (we call the Underground in this way) will prove useful to you, it takes less than 20 minutes to reach any area from the main metro station called MAIDAN NEZALEZHNOSTI (that means Independence square). It costs only 2 hryvnias (0,25 $.) In addition, you will have a lot of buses and trolleybuses going to every parts of Kiev.

 Limitless Wi-Fi...we will be in touch as much as possible!

 The flat is equipped with:

 - refrigerator

 - TV

 - Internet

 - shower

 - boiler

 - hair-dryer

 - gas cooker

 - kettle

 - washing machine

Photos of our new flat are attached below.  (My blogging abilities and editing skills hopefully will improve as we go).

Of course it will not be as bright when we are there as it is winter and not summer but Rob and I both laughed that it looks very lower Manhattan.  

Today we are moving pets to their new home at Aunt Dawn's house (Charlie the snake and Gary the gecko)...now that's a cool aunt that will bring reptiles into her home for a month and a half...we have informed both that they are in for an awesome Christmas and it will be party time until we get home.  Our cats, Gracie and Arnold will be equally spoiled at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  

We are pretty much packed up and now just finishing the photo book we are bringing to 

familiarize them to their new world and family.  It is hard to fully digest that in a week our home and hearts will be changed forever...and for the better.  Thank you to all our family and friends that have supported us with their love and blessings during a very long journey to get to this point.  You will all be with us in our hearts and minds as we travel to the other side of the globe and back to bring home the missing piece of our hearts to share with you all.  Thank you to all the wonderful friends we have made through this journey, thank you Susan our angel at www.adoptionservicesinternational.com. 

Of course during the winter it won't be as bright but the colors should brighten even the dreariest day.... although something tells me that there will be so much sunshine inside of us we won't even notice ;)

and this is the view from it's location:

Bakah (See you later in Russian)  for now!