Good morning! It is 8 am here, 1 am Florida time. I've been awake longer than I would like. It is amazing to me that the sun comes up at 4:30 am and most people have very sheer drapes on the windows. Yesterday we stayed around our apartment. It was a good day of rest after the busy day before. We took a walk to the grocery store so I could make soup for dinner. I make soup fairly often at home. It is interesting choosing spices here. I looked for one that had a picture of a chicken on the packet. It is hard to figure out what spices I am getting since I can't read Russian.
The apartment we are in has a clothes washer, though very small. No one has dryers. The landlord has clothes lines rigged up outside the balcony window. It was so strange for me to try to put the clothes on that line with my short arms. I was afraid that I would drop the clean clothes from our forth story window. It all worked out OK though.
The kitchen at the apartment is very small and has a very small fridge. There is a freezer, so I have ice cubes. I even let Darwin have some! The top shelf of the fridge freezes stuff. Salads are not good frozen!
Out hot water heater is a kalunka. It is a gas powered tankless water heater. It works great! When you turn on the hot water you hear the clicking and then the pilot lights. Sometimes it doesn't light right away. When it does I say "the kalunk is kalunking!"
Today we are going sightseeing. Tomorrow we get on the slow train to Kiev. It will take 17 hours to get there, in unairconditioned comfort! Thank God for battery operated fans.
Thanks for the updates. I was laughing while reading this especially your comment on the fans! All the things you describe make me realize how fortunate we are for the myriad of little conveniences we have. I'm even more thankful we have a God who loves us and has prepared a place for us better than anything we could imagine. We miss you!
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