Bulgaria Trip 2-Day 5

Wednesday we had to go to the clinic, so they could check Rosie's TB.  

This is Banitsa, it's very famous in Bulgaria. 

 Rosie in the morning, after her shower Ready to eat her breakfast.

Our breakfast.

Rosie is goofing around :) 

Our facilitator took us to the museum. We liked it a lot. I

 There was no parking by the museum so we had to walk back. On our way we saw this beautiful church.

Rosie

At the clinic, waiting for a doctor. 

 We went to the MR.Pizza restaurant, and it was great. Their prices are very good, they speak English, and menu has pictures :)

Shopska

Our table

 It was a very good day. We are bonding with Rosie, and trying to learn details about each other.

Blessings

Bulgaria Trip 2-Day 4

We had simple breakfast in our apartment, cereal and milk. Rosie is getting more comfortable and always happy.

In the morning our facilitator came and we did our DS-260 online. After our facilitator left, we went to have a lunch at one of the restaurant, Schastlivica. 

Shopska Salad( our favorite)

Italian Pizza

Tarator

Then we walked around, and went to the local supermarket. We found a big supermarket but it's about 15 minutes walk from our apartment. We bought some food for our breakfasts and dinners, for lunch we are planning to eat out.

In the evening I stayed in the apartment, Sergey and Rosie went to the Paradise Mall. They had fun, and I worked a little bit in my computer.

It was a great day, and we are learning more and more about our new daughter.
So blessed  to be her parents.

Bulgaria Trip 2-day 3

Monday, December 14th, we woke up at 5 am and at 6am left our hotel in Varna. Around 8:30am we got to Silistra, but it was very early to go to the social services, so we decided to go eat breakfast. Hotel Danube, we stayed there during our first trip, has a restaurant, so we decided to go there.

Around 9:30am we got to the social services, and Rose was already there :) She greeted us with a huge smile :)smile emoticon She was all ready to go, no tears, no looking back and we had a happy, smily girl :)smile emoticon:) It was sad to watch her foster mom tears, but she is very strong, loving and just awesome lady. We are blessed to have a daughter, and foster mom worked a lot with Rose. We are so thankful for this brave women.

At 10am we left Silistra, and it took us about 5 hours to get to Sofia. We had only one bathroom stop.

In Sofia, we went straight to the clinic, to get Rose's TB test done, and check if she needed any shots.

We kept asking Rose if she is hungry, but I think she was way to excited, and didn't want to eat or drink anything.

In the clinic was a long line, and we end up waiting for almost 3 hours. We all were very hungry, but decided to eat after clinic.

When we went inside to see a doctor, Rose needed to have two extra shots, and TB skin test.

Doctor checked everything and gave Rose shots. It was time to go, and when Rose got up from doctor's chair, she fainted in our arms. This was so so scary. Doctor said that because Rose was hungry, tired , her blood pressure dropped after vaccines. She recovered very quickly, and we got her a sandwich to eat, as soon as we were able to get one.

Our facilitator took us to the apartment, and after that we went to have lunch/dinner at the Bulgarian restaurant.

Came to the apartment, took showers and crashed smile emoticon

We are in Bulgaria-1st and 2nd days

Yesterday, we safely landed in Varna. I was very tired, and didn't post. Thank you for your prayers! None of our flights were delayed, or had issues, everything was awesome!
We already had our breakfast, and now I have some time to reply to my -mails and post.

Yesterday our facilitator met us in the airport, and drove us to our hotel. We took our showers, and decided to go to Grant Mall to find some food, and watch a movie. We were just trying to get out of our hotel room, so we would not fell to sleep.

Got taxi, drove to the mall. Ate a little, and went to watch a movie. Watching a movie was a bad, bad idea. I don't remember a lot, it was hard to stay awake.
Drove back to hotel, and then went for a walk to stay awake.

We had a good night sleep. We made it till 10pm local time, and woke up only once, around 3:30 am, and went back to sleep. Second time we woke up are 7:30 am, and we feel great. It was an easy time change :)

Us, waiting for our flight

 Capital Hotel

This is our 3rd time staying in this hotel. We like it. 

Grand Mall. It is huge, and many things to see and do. 

Lunch in the mall

 Looks like we are the only one's on this hotel. We had to use menu to order breakfast. (last time they just had a lot of breakfast items to choose from on the counter). 

 Breakfast was very yummy. It was awesome that I didn't have to cook it :)

 We are planning to stay in the hotel for awhile. Maybe will go for a walk later but now I am planning to answer all my e-mails. Around 6 pm our facilitator will pick us up, and we will go for a dinner.