Mother and I went to the market yesterday to get some groceries. The market is an even in itself. The closest market is about 15 minutes away. It has three floors and each floor is smaller than a convenience store. The bottom floor is where they have most of the grocery items that you need such as milk, other dairy items, water, soda, bread, pasta, frozen pizza, canned goods. The middle floor has meats like pork, ham, hot dog looking things, smoked sausages, cheeses, fruit and vegetables. The top floor was the sweet and tea area. There were all kinds of delicious chocolates and teas. At each section such as the meat section or the chocolate and tea section you had to pay for those purchases. I loaded up my backpack and along with a couple of bags and away we went back to the apartment. After we had put our purchases away and rested up we took Jacob to a nearby park to get his wiggles out. The park had playground equipment like we have at home plus dragon statue to play on. Then we walk to one of the many churches they have here. After we had taken several pictures we went to souvenir road. They have several vendors that carry all kinds of trinkets, nesting eggs, embroidery cloths, etc. Jacob had seen a puppet dog somewhere so we were on a hunt. We were not successful and Grandma was getting tired so back to apartment we went. We fixed supper and had a quiet evening.

I woke up around 2:30am to Mother talking very loudly about water on the floor. I get up to find water pouring out of the pipe under the bathroom sink (Déjà vu). We try to get some towels to stop it from coming into the living room area where mother and I are sleeping and into the bedroom. I immediately call Gregory and Ira to let them know, so they can call the leasing agent. They said to hang on while they got a hold of him. It took about 15-20 minutes for Alex the leasing agent to get here. He checked out the situation and got on the phone to see what he needed to do. He needed to find the cut off value which was not easy to find. He then got a towel to wrap around the pipe so the water would slow down. He asked if we had a rope or something to tie it with. Well I had packed duct tape just incase something needed to be fix and boy and I glad I did. Alex and I then started trying to get the water up. All we had was a bucket and towels. A shopvac would sure be handy right now. Soon after we had the water fairly sopped up the plumbers arrive to turn off the water. Yea! Well Alex and the plumbers left around 4:30am and everybody but me went back to bed. I was too keyed up. Around 10:00am the plumbers, Alex the leasing agent, apartment owner and the tenants from below us(we are on the 3rd floor) show up. The tenants from below said that the water was leaking down to their apartment. We explained what happen and they seemed very nice about it. The plumbers fixed the pipe and all is well. The apartment owner had a cleaning lady come by to clean the bathroom, towels and floor. I hope that we have not brought our bad luck with broken pipes from Georgia to the Ukraine. Ha!Ha! At least it was as bad as our house and we did not have to move to another apartment. Yea!

Before all of last night flood deja vu flood I had talked to Gregory. We were hoping to get an appointment with the SDA this week. Unfortunately all of the appointments had been filled and we would have to wait until next week. Needless to say we were very disappointed. I do undersand that there are many other families here waiting to do the same thing that we are. Today I called Ira to see if somone canceled their appointment maybe we could get in to the SDA before Monday Ira said that if we wait until next week we will be able to see new files on children that we haven't see before. So we just have to sit and wait. Mother and I went back to the market to pick more things to last through the weekend. Soon after we got back to the apartment it started to snow. Though it did not stick maybe next time. I know Jacob was excited to see it snow. I see that Atlanta has been having some pretty cold weather like we are having here. We all miss you terribly and you are in our prayers. Thanks again for all of support. It really means alot when you are so far from home.