Our long wait is over!! We have our court date and have been invited back to Voronezh to bring Ilyssa home, once and for all.
Our painter Charlie painted her room Benjamin Moore "Westin Flax" which is a creamy yellow. The crib is in place and we will order her furniture once we come back. We fell in love with a bedroom set from Pottery Barn Kids. We hope she will love it. No .. her room will not be equipped with a computer (at least not yet .... ). Bedroom pictures to follow once the room is complete.
Our court date is set for Monday, July 28th. By the time you read this on the 28th, the verdict will already be in (as Voronezh is 8 hours ahead of New York). All your wonderful posts, E-mails, Phone Calls and kind words have helped us through these months of waiting.
We hope that the judge will waive the obligatory 10 day appeal process and let us come home with Ilyssa without delay. The cost of the airfare and hotels in Russia are tapping into her
Car/College/Wedding Fund (not that these things exist yet, but who knows, maybe we'll hit the lottery).
If the judge waives the 10 day appeal process (Wide Horizons is planning for this), we leave Voronezh the next day with Ilyssa and endure the 12 hour train ride back to Moscow. We will purchase a train berth for 4 people. It is no larger than the berth we took down to Voronezh; this has 2 upper bunks. Daddy drew the small straw and will sleep in the upper bunk. Let's hope Daddy doesn't fall and break his neck/arm/leg, etc. when he gets up on multiple occasions during the night to go the bathroom.
Once in Moscow, we must go to the American Embassy. She will be examined by American doctors and her paperwork will be completed. She will fly out with a Russian passport, but she will have a special sealed envelope that we must present to the Immigration Officials in New York. Once Immigration clears her, she will have dual citizenship.
Friday, July 18, 2008
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