Last day in Ukraine

Today is our last full day in Ukraine!! We can not believe it is finally here! Sorry about not posting the last few days, but Vika is using the computer for entertainment and learning English. Sunday we went to a huge open air market, it is about 10 minutes walk from our apartment.  You can get anything there, toilets, car parts, cleaning supplies, clothing, shoes, fruit, vegetables, the only thing we could not find was bread, but we did not see the whole market.
Monday morning we went to the medical center for Vika's physical. She is not a morning person! We had to leave by 9 so we woke her at 7:30. The medical system here is very different, we are used to sitting in a waiting room and waiting for you named to be called, not here. They have a waiting hallway, but everyone that comes just knocks on the door they need to go into and sticks their head in, then they are told to wait or come in. There did not seem to be and order to the process, but things seem to get done and move along. Vika had to have some bloodwork and a chest x-ray. We were told that all the children at the home have had a TB vaccination, so when they have a TB test done it will read a false positive. They do an x-ray to show that there is no TB.  We went back to the apartment after the medical exam, and Vika was much happier. She did not want to go anywhere so I walked to the market and Mick stayed with Vika.
Yesterday we had to leave by 8:30, so we woke the sleeping bear at 7 again, not happy:(  Our first stop was the medical center again, they had me sign the wrong form the day before so we had to go back and resign, I then received my packet of medical information to take to the embassy.  The traffic in Kiev in is horrendous! Like any big city you drive then sit, drive then sit, it has taken us over an hour each day to get to our destinations. I could tell from our drivers body lanaguage that we were late for our appoinment at the embassy. When we arrived there you had to go through security in an outer building, no cameras, cell phones, or computers. My purse was searched and x-rayed and you have to go through a metal detector, then you go outside and into another building. Mick talked to a gentleman and he told him what parts of different forms he had to complete, then they fingerprinted Vika and told us to come back today at 2.  The weather here yesterday was beautiful! The sun was out, and it felt like it was near 40 degrees, the wind was blowing but it was not cold. It felt like a spring day, so we walked to the open air market. Vika got two shirts a pair of pants and a pair of earrings.  We stopped at the grocery store an bought frozen pizza for dinner, they were not bad! Vika also had her first english lesson with her teacher Liliya. Mick and I were a little concerned that she would not like it, or get bored half way through, but this was not the case.  She enjoyed it and told us that Liliya was a good teacher and ask if she was going to be her english teacher in America.
Today we are going to go back to the embassy and pack. We are ready to go home, but we are going to miss all the children from the orphange. It was difficult to leave them last friday, but it is a different feeling knowing that you will be half way around the world from them - instead of just in a different city. So many childern have taken our hearts we feel that we are leaving behind part of our family. One minute we are happy to leave and the next we are fighting tears for those that are left.
Thank you everyone who had made this journey possible for us!  Thank you for your prayers, we know that without all the prayer we would not have been able to do this, See you soon!