Sunday

 My favorite things in this hotel...pictures my babies drew for me to bring along. Thank you Anna, Naomi, Luke and Beth for my pretty art work!

 View from our hotel window. This is the only hotel in the city. Our other option was to stay in a much nicer hotel about 2 hours away and take a taxi for visits with D. We choose to stay here in his city and be about 10 minutes from his facility. We have pretty good heat, pretty good internet connection and some water :) Taking a shower in pretty interesting. The water cuts on and off during the shower, the water pressure is very little but thankfully what water does come out is hot :)!

 Our very kind friends.

Out sightseeing on a cold evening,

Hot tea inside is much better :)!

We had a very big dinner...not so sure what we ate but just praying it does not make us sick.They did kindly order and we did eat :) Dinner always seems to end with tea and chocolates and I am up for that anytime.

Yesterday we meet some friends....they live here in the city where we are staying and work in the local grocery. They are our age and newly married. They are Christians and speak enough English)they have studied English on their own for 7 years) where we can carry on a conversation :)! They are very very curious about America. Yesterday we went to eat at the local pizzaria and today we went to church with them)the only Christian church in this city and has about 500 members), did some sight seeing and then had dinner. Please pray tomorrow (Monday morning for us...Sunday night for you :) that we will be allowed to visit with D without any problems.

*** our interesting observation is the lack of children here...in a church of about 450-500 adults, we saw maybe 8-10 children. Since we have been in Ukra**e we have seen hardly any children, though the orphanages and institutions are full to capacity.