Saturday Night

The party is cranking up downstairs in the cafe.  But up on the second floor, all is quiet.  Svetlana was not successful in getting the Romny passport office to come to work today, so she has headed back to Kiev for the weekend.  We have established the schedule, but I think this is very optimistic (ie, everything has to go right from here on out to meet this schedule).  Passport work Monday and Tuesday morning. Go to Kiev Tuesday afternoon.  Work on embassy paperwork and wait five days for passport.  This gets us out to the following Tuesday.  Wednesday, medical exam, Thursday and Friday embassy, then find the nearest exit and depart.  So even optimistically, we have two more weeks.  Pretty quiet day.  We did laundry, so it is hanging all over the room again, met with Svetlana, did some vital grocery shopping, saw Julia for 1-1/2 hours, messaged the kids, and got on FaceTime with Laura and Kate.

This is Libby dodging laundry to put on makeup.