Trains, automobiles and walking sticks!

We are here in Kiev!!!!!
We arrived by the overnight train at 8am. We were met there by a friend, Dima (who looks like Owen Wilson's twin). The 3 of us, the driver and 6 suitcases crunched into a small taxi. Jerry and Dima sat in the back seat with 2 of the suitcases on their laps. After we arrived at our new place, we sat in our new apartment kitchen enjoying some Russian conversation and a cup of tea with our friend.

After Dima left, we were free to explore our new apartment. We have a entryway with a coat closet and glass doored bookcases and cupboards. There are wooden parquet floors all throughout the place! The room to the right of the entryway/hallway is our bedroom, to the left is Parker's bedroom, straight ahead is the living room and farther back and down the hall is the kitchen, toilet room and bathroom. We have 2 balconies! what fun!!!
I will post some pictures when we finally get our internet hooked up. Jerry was able to find a card that allows us to do dial-up from our phone line, but this is really too slow for pictures.

After discovering that we didn't have any TP, we decided to take a stroll around our place and look for the shopping places. We didn't have much success (but, we did find TP), so we came back and Jerry decided to look at the city map! He found a market and supermarket only 3 blocks in the other direction from where we had explored. We have been shopping several times now, as we buy food and necessities here. I have forgotten how heavy grocery bags can get. We sold our car when we left Krasnodar, Russia. Now we are urbanites and think that we will not buy a car. We will see.....

I am not sure how much to write before you may get tired of reading, so I will stop for now, in hopes that you will want to read more the next time you check. The saga will continue...but I will leave you with some prayer items....

~we are hoping to have a wireless connection, this week if possible! please pray about this...

~my shopping list now includes a Russian/Ukrainian dictionary, we realize that we will need more than shopping terms for everyday language. Pray that we can find some language helpers for Ukrainian language learning.

~please pray that we have divine meetings with our neighbors, and that we understand clearly what God wants to do here with us.

~pray for us as we continue to trust God for all the aspects of our lives.

~pray that we will adjust to this time here, we are 10 hours ahead of pacific time, US. We keep waking up at about 2am.

I think that should cover it for now...we are pretty excited about all that the future holds,
~Kim