WE GOT A REFERRAL!!!!

AUGUST 20, 2004
We had our appointment this morning and got a referral to see a 2 year old girl in the Crimea region. She will be 3 on September 29th. We are so excited. We leave tonight at midnight and should get there by 8:00 in the morning. This is what we know about her so far....she is healthy (she was diagnosed with dermatitis and a food allergy when she was a baby...probably just a rash and bad formula). She has light hair and grey eyes. Her name is Olessa, not sure how to spell it. Her birth mother was young and gave her up when she was 3 day sold. The little girl was supposed to be adopted by Ukrainians until recently. Not sure if they changed their minds or if something fell through. We feel good about this but do not want to get our hopes up. Please pray that she is our little girl and that we can come home soon with her. Oh, they also showed us are ally cute 3 year old boy who was from western Ukraine. He had dark hair and big dark eyes. We would have chosen to see him in a heartbeat but our hearts went toward the girl :) We are traveling in a car. We checked on train tickets and flights to Simferopol, but since Ukraine's independence day is Tues,everything was booked. Sveta said that a lot of people are headed down therefor the weekend. It should take us 8 hours to get there by car. Also pray that our driver doesn't drive like we are in a video game. He drove us today and Iowas on pins and needles the whole time. Chris loved it though! We will update everyone tomorrow!