Appointment on Tuesday?

Howdy everyone. We got a call last night from Luba saying that we should have our appointment on Tuesday. We'll find out what time it will be later on today. If anyone's willing to hit their knees for a little prayer on this appointment, we'd appreciate it. We'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes when it is over. Hopefully we'll be on our way to find some rowdy youngster shortly after that.

Today we are on a long walk around the neighborhood trying to find the "supermarket". We didn't go the right way, but we are trying to circle back on it. I won't go into who wasn't allowed to ask for directions to it.

We stopped at the universal restuarant, McDonalds for lunch today. The best part of the meal was the air conditioning. We've not had a building with air conditioning since London that I can recall. If anyone recalls the conversation from "Pulp Fiction" about there being no Quarter Pounders with Cheese in the McDonald's in France because of the metric system, the same goes here. In fact, the name is similar to the Royale with Cheese they mention in the movie. It's something like a McRoyal, but with cyrillic letters. Pam went for a McFish herself. The fries were just called potatoes in Russian.

We decided to split a pie and I went to up to ask for a "McPerok" basically McPie and they in bad English told me I could choose between cherry and something else. I offered, "Apple?", they said no. Finally someone said it was Woodberry Pie. Well, I just had to try that. Turned out to be some kind of mixed berry with blueberry and raspberry together. It was really tasty. I can't say the same for my burger. It was pretty lousy.

We are currently in an internet cafe that I really like. It's called The Vault and is a huge warehouse type of room just packed with rows of computers. Most of them are set up for gaming, which would be a blast, except for the language barrier. I watched a kid playing Grand Theft Auto next to me for a while. I'm also sipping a beer while I type. How cool is that? If it weren't a half hour walk from the apartment, I'd be here every day.

These computers are also Windows XP, so we have the ability to finally load up some pictures, which Pam has been doing. They show our apartment and \I think she is loading one of her and Luba that I took in front of St. Sophia's Cathedral.