Friday, May 14, 2010. This morning, we were at the orphanage at 8am to sign the discharge papers, gather the girls and their things, and say goodbye to Severodonetsk orphanage. Jerry and Nataliya stayed for the signing, and then had to leave right away to travel to get the new passports. Kelly stayed and got the girls squared away.
The girls said goodbye to everyone, and there were many tears from the staff and friends. Anastasia wanted to take pictures of absolutely everything. When leaving, the girls wanted a photo of them waving goodbye to the orphanage forever.
They came to the hotel and changed into some clothing that we had brought with us, as they had to take back what they were wearing. Basically, they give you naked children since they are not supposed to take anything with them but some personal items such as photos or religious nicknacks.
Jerry got back from the first passport stop in time for lunch, and then had to leave a few hours later to travel to Lugansk to finalize everything and get the actual passports. The official in charge of this really liked Jerry and the fact that he is Cuban, so he moved it along very quickly for us (getting passports can normally take up to 45 days, but we got them in just one day!).
After he got the passports, Jerry went to the travel agency to book our flights to Kiev for tomorrow morning. Our flight leaves out of Lugansk at 7:45am, which means that we need to leave the hotel by 4:30 in order to make it there in time.
We had a late dinner at the hotel, and there was another convention there so it ended up being even later than we wanted. We were in bed by 11:30pm, up by 3:30am and out of the hotel on time. Anastasia & Kristina with the Director with one of the caretakers
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