If you've seen one dome...

We started this day extremely slow.

Everyone was wide awake by 1:00am. We fell asleep hard last night, but could not stay asleep. Hopefully we'll have better luck tonight. The kids and I got up for our first breakfast... bread, butter and water by street light. Lydia commented on how beautiful the street looked at 1 am. I have to agree with her. Rather like a pastel painting.

We went back to bed and slept for a couple more hours, but couldn't really get any good sleep in. So we started our day, with watching 2 movies on our iPad. I know, terrible Mom!! But I couldn't help it. Between a throbbing sinus headache and sleep deprivation I really had no control over my parenting skills.

After our second breakfast, we went out for a "walk". We started with St. Michael's Monastery where we said a prayer and lit candles (Peter's favorite part of the day).







Then onto another church. The people were crowded around this one. St. Andrew's Church. It is easily seen from many section's of "old" Kiev and dearly loved.






We wandered down the street which is lined with stalls selling all sorts of Ukrainian souvenir items. We bought a beautifully painted egg from a very convincing salesman and then headed for lunch. Ed had an interesting marinated eggplant dish, I had a tasty borsch soup, Lydia had grilled chicken and Peter had hot pita and cheese. Peter's first word's when he saw his plate were "This has grass!" A warm tortilla with cheese and dill rolled up. He almost was able to finish it. It took a lot of cheering on, but he almost did it!






We continued down the street to other beautiful, old, domed buildings and churches. A few history lessons along the way and then we came to Lydia's favorite part of the day. A park filled with pigeons and a gelato stand. Both kids were allowed to take a picture of the pigeons.
Lydia's picture:



Peter's picture:



By this time the kids were begging to go back to the "re-partment" (Peter). Their feet were "dead". Until we passed a playground, then they rallied themselves for a good hour of play. It had newer play equipment next to an old Soviet style play area all concrete and metal. One little boy had a gun in one hand and a large serrated knife in the other. He tried playing with the kids, but they didn't seem too interested.

Back at the apartment, the kids crashed. No sleep, a lunch of "grass", and a full day of walking will do that to a child.







Tomorrow we have our SDA appointment to receive our little one's referral. Our appointment will be at noon, early morning back home. Any prayers at that time would be so appreciated. We could also use some extra prayers for good health. Ed, Lydia and I seem to have some sinus issues. Praying for clear thinking tomorrow for answering questions and being alert to all info given us. A clear head would be a blessing.

We have enjoyed reading all of the comments from everyone. It is so nice to know we have people interested in our journey and praying for us. Very comforting. Dobray Vee-a-chur. Good evening.

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