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Our Adoption Journey
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We left O'Hare airport in Chicago at 12:30 p.m. on June 12th.  We spent the 11th, Debra's 37th birthday, packing, unpacking, condensing, smashing and zipping our luggage into two small backpacks, two small duffle bags, and one large duffel bag (filled mostly with medical donations for the orphanage).

We flew American Airlines to Newark.  Then we flew Lot Airlines from  Newark to Warsaw, Poland, and Aerosvit Airlines from Warsaw to Kiev, Ukraine.  We arrived in Kiev at 3 p.m. on June 13th.
June 14, 2002  All is Well in Kiev
June 14, 2002  Kiev in the Afternoon
June 15, 2002  Weekend in Kiev
June 16, 2002  Sunday in Kiev
June 17, 2002 Leaving for Kramatorsk Tonight
June 19, 2002  Finding Jacob!
June 19, 2002  Highs and Lows
June 20, 2002  Relaxing Thursday in Kramatorsk
June 21, 2002 Exciting Friday
June 24, 2002  Big Day Tomorrow
June  22, 2002 Visiting Jacob
June 23, 2002  Two More Days?
June 29, 2002 In Kiev with Jacob
July 1, 2002 Breakthrough with Jake
July 5, 2002 Coming Home as Scheduled
July 7, 2002 Last Day in Kiev