Monday, July 19, 2010

A Day NOT to Remember!!


6:45: Wake up alarm
7:15: Breakfast
8:10: Arrive at court house to pick up decree. Many Babushka (Russian grandmothers) already accumulating.
8:30: Court House doors open and Sergey sprints to the consigliere (prothonotary) office. NO DECREE. He calmly asks the woman to look again. She agrees to call him in from the hall once she does. No call. He goes in one more time. She becomes irritated because she is busy. Sergey gets the court secretary to come in and she locates the document. Yea.
8:50: Depart to go to Office of the Records in Lisichansk (Sergei's home town)
9:10: Arrive in Lisichansk and wait in hallway.
9:40: Sergey learns there is a problem with Sergei's birthcertificate. We must have the judge amend the decree. Back to Severodonetsk.
9:59: Arrive in Severodonetsk. Judge not available because he is in a session.
10:15: Court must be over and I see the judge. He does not want to change the decree as the problem exists with the records office and not what he processed. Sergey convinces him to help us.
10:56: One copy of amended decree in hand to bring to Lisichansk. If approved,we will return to pick up additional copies..
11:13: Arrive back at the Records Office in Lisichansk
12:26: Get the new birth certificate listing us as parents and the adoption certificate. Off to the Records Office in same town (Lisichantsk) which is where Sergei was born.
12:35: Arrive at Tax Inspector's before the office closes at 13:00. SNAG!. We need to hit the Tax Inspector in Severodonetsk (return trip #2). She does not know their hours or their phone number.
13:03: Arrive at Tax Inspector in Severodonetsk. Entire office closed for lunch. Tax IDs are not issued after 13:00 but we could return at 13:45 and try.
13:20: Hit the court house to pick up additional copies of amended decree.
13:35: Return to Tax Inspector and wait for 10 more minutes.
14:13: Got it! Off to Internot (school) to get paperwork from the lawyer.
14:40: To the passport office with Yana, the Internot's lawyer. Oops....needed a notarized copy of both birth and adotption certificates.
14:54: Off to notary.
15:13: Back to Passport Office.
16:05: Back to Internot. One more stamped document for passport office and then pick up release papers to pick up Sergei from camp.
16:40: Last trip to passport office. finally, all paperwork submitted. We will pick up his new passport in Lugansk on Wednesday.
17:30: Head to camp to retrieve Sergei and say good bye to children.
18:00: Arrive at camp.
19:15: Depart camp.
19:45: Pick up Larissa at her home and head to Internot to pick up last minute things of Sergei.
20:00: Dinner at Larissa's with her husband Gena , son Sasha, Sergei and me.
23:00: Return to Hotel Mir with my new son Sergei. Mommy wants airconditioning. Sergei insists he is cold. OMG!!! Someone please help me!
00:15: Sergei is STILL playing computer games.


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