This is our day yesterday in pictures. I don't have time to add more right now as we are headed to our train. :^) I hope everyone enjoys!
We got up and ready and Natasha met us and Cook's to take us both to our SDA appointments. We were first, at 10am, so Cook's went over to what became our favorite place to eat there in Kiev. We waited on the stairs I am standing on for our turn. It took a few minutes and then we were brought through this door. The psychologist was very nice. Very business-like, as you would expect, but very nice. She asked us to introduce ourselves, which Husband did. Then she asked us how we met Ira, which he also explained. She shared some information with us about her, but it wasn't really anything we didn't know. The only exception was that she has less than perfect eye sight, but not enough to need glasses yet. We had suspected that when she was with us. She told us that is we hadn't changed our minds then she was going to issue our referral letter. We then showed her our pictures we'd brought, which she seemed to like. :^) Then we headed over to the pizza cafe (luckily its part of a chain so hopefully we can find one close to where we are now!) and ate something while we visited with Cook's and waited for their appointment. Oleg and both our facilitators show up as well and after quite awhile we went to do some more sight seeing.
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| The door we went into for our SDA appointment |
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| St. Michael's Church |
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| Us in front of the Ministry sign |
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| This was a pretty floral shop I liked |
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| I think this is the Ministry of Foreign affairs building. |
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| A very pretty building on St. Michael's Square |
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| St. Michael's church again |
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| The bell tower at St. Michael's |
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| I don't remember what building this is, but it was pretty. :^) |
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| The clock is pretty on the bell tower |
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| An outdoor ice skating rink. I liked the artwork on the sign |
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| This is a hotel they were going to refurbish, but never did. Natasha said it is a very common communist architecture. |
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| Another pretty building |
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| This is a huge clock (you can see the guy walking below it) in the grass |
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| One of the two escalators down to the subway station. They went FAST and, as you can see, you can't see the end when you start. |
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| The subway station. Natasha said it wasn't the nicest one, but I still thought it was very pretty. You're just VERY far underground. |
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| People waiting for the subway |
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| This was as it took off. I quite enjoyed riding it. :^) |
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| As soon as Little One had Masha around I was no longer wanted. LOL |
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| The Monument about WWII |
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| The eternal flame at the monument |
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| Kiev and the Dnepro River during the day. Beautiful! |
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| This playground looked fun. :^) |
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| A monument dedicated to the victims of the Great Famine. The stork symbolized that it wasn't the people's choice because he is trapped in the stone. |
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| A statue of a girl at the Great Famine monument |
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| Mourning angels at the enterance |
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| This was symbolizing wheat that was cut down and not given to the people |
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| Lavra - A group of churches |
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| A church at Lavra |
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| Another church there |
At Lavra we went to a little museum of miniatures. We're not talking about dollhouse miniatures, we talking about a chess set on the head of a pin miniature. You looked through a microscope to see everything. It was VERY cool. :^)
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| This is the walkway down to the cave. It was closed, but we will go on our way back through Kiev. |
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| The view from the hill at Lavra |
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| This is a very fancy underground mall |
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| The glass dome that is at ground level. |
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| We ate at the food court there and had yummy ice cream at... |
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| this place. :^) |
Little One had been a very good sport through all of the walking. She was VERY good. She deserved some ice cream. :^)
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| Another view of the mall. |
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| A worn out Little One. :^) |
