Sunday Afternoon

Hello everyone. We appreciate all the e-mails, please keep them coming.

Yesterday's trip to the Open Air Museum was actually pretty interesting, despite the educational aspect of it. Actually, I like history a lot and this was a lot of history.

The Open Air Museum is a huge place, according to our translator Luba it is 180 Hectares, which works out to about 444 acres. They have buildings that are representative of all the regions of Ukraine here. It was a nice day for walking around, but it was a lot of walking around and it ended with us walking uphill for at least a mile. Yep, it was another of the patented Ray and Pam "Death Marches". Luckily Alexei was waiting with the car to take us home.

Here's the link to the museum: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/websites04/martin/Ukraine.htm

On the way home Pam said something about the supermarket after Alexei had dropped Luba off. She meant the market across from our apartment, but I was unsuccessful in explaining "magazine nedelacor v'kvarteera" (the store not far from apartment) and he took us to a place actually called a supermarket. I had noticed the signs saying supermarket before. Pam loved the place. You could use a cart and pick up things from the aisles and ring up everything at a cashier before leaving. Heck, I loved that part of it myself.

On the way back, I told Alexei, "Maya jenna, oichin loobeesh supermarket" to which he replied, "Da, maya jenna toja". Translation, "My wife very much loves the supermarket" and his reply, "Yes, my wife too."

This morning we went to Luba's church for the 11:00 service. Her church offers a translator that speaks over an FM transmitter to radios with headphones that Pam and I wore. It was a good service, but like so many places here in Ukraine, the church was up 4 flights of stairs and was extremely warm.

After service, Alexei and his wife Oxana drove us home. It sounds like we may be going to the NAC again tomorrow, but we've not heard that officially from Tatiana. We are doing some serious internet and relaxing today and hopefully we'll get on to the real business Monday or Tuesday and find a child to go visit.