The wait begins

The first of our 10 day stretch, a long quite day.  We walked to the market and I made vegetable soup for dinner.  It had snowed yesterday, but it was melted by this morning and everything is muddy again. Cheri and Russi arrived in Kiev today.  They called us and said they needed Sashas phone number, they had been waiting for two hours and no one had come to pick them up.  We phoned Sasha and he set someone for them.  We are waiting to hear if they have made it to their apartment. We went to the childrens home about 3:45 and stayed until 6:20.  It seems strange to be there with no other families.  We had our group of kids- Vika, Nastya, Vika, Rusa, and Autur, and from time to time a few other children stopped by to say hello. Some of the kids stay for the duration, others say hi then take off. All of them are precious!