It is 8:26pm Friday evening here (12:26pm Friday afternoon in Alabama for those of you confused by the time differential) and we just got back from dinner at a cafeteria whose name I cannot spell or pronounce! It was mostly traditional Ukrainian food and we actually enjoyed it...even Jackson. Funny story, Jackson and I were in the cafeteria line getting our food. We were being helped by a girl with very limited English....she told us that a small bowl of something that sort of looked like salmon-colored cream cheese spread was "salad". So Jackson, being a lover of salad, grabbed it up. We took it to the table and all tried it and it was actually good....but not at all salad. We all liked it so what did it matter? Jackson even liked it so much he said he could eat it all day every day! Well, Ben came and met us to visit and we were telling him about it and he said some Ukrainian word sounding like "sah-lahd" and we had thought she was saying "salad". Anyway, it is some kind of pork fat spread that you put on bread or meat sandwiches. Sounds gross...but we liked it, so we put it on some bread and it was even better! I thought once again how Jim Lazenby and Keith McDonald would be suffering for the cause over here! HaHa! Anyway, we had a pretty laid back day today. We did go to the SDA and got our official paperwork for the referal. We will get up tomorrow morning and head out to Zhytomyr(Zhitomir--pronounced jee-toe-meer)...directly to left of Kyiv (Kiev) on our blog map. There we will have an opportunity to meet both boys and interact with them a little bit. We are praying for a clear sign from God as to how to proceed from there. Jackson and Carol will be hanging out here for the day as we will need the first time to be just me and Greg. We will be back late tomorrow afternoon, though, and will let you all know what happened. I wanted to jut let you know that we are feeling much better/happier today as we are just so glad to have our Heavenly Father preparing our way. Every step of this trip has been pretty much exactly how we would want it....he might just be giving our little family a different look than we were prepared for! I was trying to make this blog a little shorter, but I wanted to at least give you all a little Melanie and Greg humor so you would know we are okay! Love to all!