First Day Out

A good friend once told me never to blog about what I had for breakfast.  However, I think this morning qualifies as an exception to that advice.  This morning, I woke up to yogurt parfait, chocolate torte, kefir- dipped french toast, and most importantly, VIA Starbucks!!!!  The Starbucks should clue you all into that this was a completely homemade breakfast prepared by my "One and Only".  If you DO know what kefir is, you'll get a laugh out of realizing that after mistakingly thinking it was milk and putting it on our cereal, we had to come up with another way to use it!  If you DON'T know what kefir is, it makes for an interesting google search!

Today, we ventured out into the city.  We figured out the Metro with only one mistake, we were blessed to have lunch with a wonderful woman here doing various ministries, and to top it off, we got "snuckered" into paying WAY more money than we should have to Garfield at Freedom Square.  This evening was spent on a stroll to St. Sophia's, dinner out, and a rather involved process of exchanging money at the bank.  It was a great time getting to know our surroundings, but we feel ready to move on and are looking forward to getting the ball rolling with the SDA (State Department of Adoptions) tomorrow morning.

2 items of prayer.......
1.   That all goes well with SDA the next 2 days.  They tend to be quite unpredictable and picky.
2.   That our process in entirety goes smoothly and quickly.  We were recently told that it rarely takes only five weeks to complete everything here.  The Lord knows how much our young family can handle, but we've still chosen to pray that things will go efficiently.

Thanks for your faithful prayers and enjoy the pics!!!

( This is primarily for my brother, Mark.....this graffiti is right outside our apartment.  I thought this was hilarious...)