Vika Grace McCracken

We had a good day. We got up and went to the market so we could be back in plenty of time to go to court. Sveta came to the apartment around noon and said we had court at 2. The judge was still sick but was going to be at court today. We left the apartment around one, went to the childrens home picked up Vika and her teacher for court.  The director was busy and could not be a court today so Vika's teacher went to represent the childrens home.  We had court in a small room, there were the four of us, the judge, prosecutor, the local social worker, the secretary, and two ladies that represented the local community.  Court lasted longer than we thought, about fifty minutes to an hour.  They ask Mick a few questions -Why we wanted to adopt,  why we wanted to adopt Vika, the five things that we need to know when we get Vika home.  Then she ask me more than Mick!  I was not prepared for this because we were told that the men usually get most of the question.  But I got through it, and we have our daughter!
After court we took the teacher back to the home and went to eat dinner, and Vika got to come with us! Eric and his son Dima meet us a nice restaurant.  This restaurant had traditional Ukrainian food, I had borscht, Mick had russian salad, and we both had a dish with pork, mushrooms, potatoes and cheese -everything was very good. Vika has some kind of sea food salad and chicken and mashed potatoes.
After dinner we said good-bye to Eric and Dima, they are taking the train to Kiev tonight, and they will finish the rest of their paperwork there.
Now we begin our 10 waiting period, Sveta said we could start the 28th on our next round of paperwork.