*sigh* Well, another week has come and gone, and no letter. We did get our visas today, so we can hop on the plane any second if necessary. We're a little surprised to notice that they are good for a year instead of just six months. Hopefully this is a new Ukrainian policy rather than a mistake. Many future travellers will love that they have a year to use their visas instead of just six months. We'll see.

This week has been reallllly busy. We've been working really hard at trying to get the beds finished. My brother John has been working on the drawers for under the beds, which my John and I sanded today. We also finished staining and sanding the beds today. I hope we can get them finished and set up in the kids' room by next Saturday. We still need to poly them, and stain and poly the drawers. Sorry, still no digital camera, so still no pics.

The Credit Union hasn't been able to get us any cash. They have been calling all over the area asking for clean bills, and hopefully they'll come up with something on Monday. If not, we'll pull what we can and start exchanging it all over town ourselves. Trying not to stress too hard about it.

Well, that's the update for the week. Hopefully we'll have The News early next week. The waiting is killing us! It has been nice to get so many emails from strangers telling us that they've been checking in and hoping to see The News. Thank you so much everyone, for the support.