Hello everyone from the very beautiful and interesting city of Kiev.
We arrived yesterday right on time but with only one peice of luggage. We were delayed in getting out of Dulles because of a clogged toilet (of all things). We got to Frankfurt with only enough time to get quickly to our departing flight. Unfortunately, three pieces of our luggage weren't so fast. So, we've got on fourth of everything... toiletries, clothes, computer necessities (i.e., a digital camera but no firewire cord to download photos to a computer), etc. They found our luggage and hope to have it to us tomorrow.
We've got a great little apartment right near the downtown area. No AC but a nice little kitchen with a modern bathroom. The bed is rock hard and the pillow cases feel like sleeping on sandpaper. We do have cable TV and a small veranda.
At lunch today, Pam went Ukrainian and had some sort of chicken cooked in stewed tomatoes and vegetables served with plain spaghetti noodles. It was quite delicious. Stephen stepped off the deep end and had (1) an assortment of pickles which included 2 pickles, 5 pickled tomatoes, stewed egg plant, and red cabbage and (2) fried pig ears (see the photo). It was better than good. The pig ears, by the way, state like and have the consistency of calamari. We're extremely grateful to all those deaf pigs!
We arrived yesterday right on time but with only one peice of luggage. We were delayed in getting out of Dulles because of a clogged toilet (of all things). We got to Frankfurt with only enough time to get quickly to our departing flight. Unfortunately, three pieces of our luggage weren't so fast. So, we've got on fourth of everything... toiletries, clothes, computer necessities (i.e., a digital camera but no firewire cord to download photos to a computer), etc. They found our luggage and hope to have it to us tomorrow.
We've got a great little apartment right near the downtown area. No AC but a nice little kitchen with a modern bathroom. The bed is rock hard and the pillow cases feel like sleeping on sandpaper. We do have cable TV and a small veranda.
At lunch today, Pam went Ukrainian and had some sort of chicken cooked in stewed tomatoes and vegetables served with plain spaghetti noodles. It was quite delicious. Stephen stepped off the deep end and had (1) an assortment of pickles which included 2 pickles, 5 pickled tomatoes, stewed egg plant, and red cabbage and (2) fried pig ears (see the photo). It was better than good. The pig ears, by the way, state like and have the consistency of calamari. We're extremely grateful to all those deaf pigs!
Prices for goods differ dramatically. Last night we ate at a small hole-in-the-wall pizza-by-the-slice place. We had 4 pieces of pizza and 2 drinks for $6. This morning, Stephen ventured out for a nice coffee at a quaint coffee shop and spent about the same amount ($6) just for the coffee.
We have a 24-hour grocery store nearby with just about everything we could want. A large retail shopping district is also juse a few blocks away.
We'll find out about children Wednesday morning when we meet with the adoption ministry. That evening we'll post what we know. We hope to have photos of the child or children by Friday.
Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers.
4 comments:
Glad to hear you made it safely. I'm sure the luggage will arrive soon. We're praying for God's direction as you find out more specifics later in the week.
Rodney and Carla
Sounds like you're almost settled in. So happy that you made it there safe and sound. Sorry to hear about your luggage.
We are looking forward to seeing Darian and Trevor tomorrow! (Tuesday).
We'll pray for you and the little sweethearts you're about to meet!
Love,
Jennifer, Brian, Hannah, Grant and Tessa
Steve and Pam, Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers! May God grant you great wisdom and discernment in the weeks ahead. Your friends, David and Betty
Well, today is "our" Wednesday (8 p.m.) and we're on pins and needles as we wait to find out your new family member(s).
You said that you wanted some more English, so I'm including a couple of "strange but true" quotes.
"Have you ever seen a sesquipedalian?" You certainly have -- in fact there's one in this very paragraph.
"Sesquipedalian" simply means "long word."
"Would you like your son or daughter to become a nimgimmer?" You might indeed, if you knew what the word meant.
"Nimgimmer" is just an old fashioned way of referring to a surgeon.
Good luck with the sandpaper pillow cases.
Harriet (and Jim)
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