Chocolate, History, Chocolate, and Friends-Catch Up Part Three

LEAVING, ON A JET PLANE!!



Off we go!

Yes, Bard is buying our return tickets RIGHT NOW!  We found out this morning that Max's passport came in so we go to the embassy and medical clinic tomorrow and then should have everything we need to come home.  A quirk or two could still pop up, so please pray everything goes smoothly.  Then, it looks like we will be heading to Frankfurt at the lovely hour of 5:45am on Thursday-because if you are going to start your 20 hour flight home with three young children, you may as well start it by waking them up at 2am, right?

Suck it up kids, I'm going home.

Since today was our last free day, I wanted to visit the Ukrainian National History Museum, finish up my shopping on St Andrews descent, eat at the Lviv chocolate shop, and take the Kyiv funicular back up.  Oh, and pack. And rest so we can be healthy.

Suck it up mama, you can sleep when you're dead!



Ukrainian Warriors!

Off we went, with baby brother in the ergo, which he mostly did okay with and enjoyed an hour long tour of four floors, 15 centuries of Ukrainian history.  Yes, I realize that's insane, but we still were able to see some fun artifacts and really, for 2 dollars a person, you just can't beat any historical experience!  Max was getting cranky, so we skipped a floor (sorry 16th century) and headed out for some shopping and chocolate.  He was still fussy and we were trying to feed him a (gasp!) only lukewarm bottle, avoid a blowout, keep the sun out of his eyes, when Cecilia just started screaming Putin murder.  She had been stung by a bee.

Funicular!

Dear Ukraine, I love you so much, why?

 This is my one who does not recover so we purchased just one item and then headed to the chocolate shop.  Remember I told you about this place?  Yeah, I ate all that chocolate!  Plus, they apparently have the most amazing melted chocolate that you eat with a little spoon from heaven.  And, to make chocolate even better, we were able to meet up with some wonderful friends who are here adopting teenagers and we all were just thrilled with this restaurant.  Why have I not been there every day?  We maybe should have hiked off the chocolate back up the hill-and when I say hill, think San Francisco-but we have been wanting to take the funicular and not been able to since it was broken for a month.  Dear Ukraine...Anyway it was a totally cool experience and the girls loved it.  Even Cici, after eating chocolate cake, melted chocolate, and riding what is essentially a trolley roller coaster, managed to almost stop scowling.  We walked back together and yay, got a little treatment for Cici's bee sting (really, poor baby :( ) 

Listen, adoptive families are just the best community, we are so blessed by all the people we've met along the way-we love you!

Now we have a passport, a completed visa application, and plane tickets to Seattle!!

Dasvadanya!