Thursday, September 2, 2010

Life After Dedication




Well, we got to sleep in until 0800 this morning. What a difference since the dedication. We still have lots of follow up work to do, plus two more senior missionary couples just left to go home. That leaves us with some CES and Humanitarian duties until new couples show up later this fall or winter.

The building you see in the far left is the one we live in. We are on the 13th floor. There are three small elevators, and so far we have been lucky that the power has not been out when we needed to go to our apartment. The apartment complex is interesting. Only about 1/3 of the apartments are ready to live in. They continue to do some work as a very slow pace. Also, there is supposed to be parking under each apartment building, but there is no access to get there, and I think they still need to finish it before it can be used. So eveyone that has a car drives and parks on the sidewalks.
For all you interested folks, to get to our apartment you surface from the Ocokorky Metro and wals about 400 yards to the southwest and there is our apartment, overlooking the river and in the distance is part of Kyiv. The pins mark the starting and ending points.
The last photo is of all the missionaries (young and old) on the stage at the Cultural Celebration the evening of the 28th. We are in the picture, if you study it long enough you might be able to pick us out. This photo was taken by Deseret News photographer. Hint: the sisteres are not dressed in dark suits. And the senior couples stand by each other.
Kyiv has a lot of history and we look forward to learning a little about it.
We will add more as we now have a little more time to do such things.
What is your excuse for not updating your blogs?


Dad and Mom










3 comments:

the Flammers said...

I see mom in the picture, but I haven't found dad yet. The bright jacket helps!

Natalie said...

I think Dad is just behind Mom, but I think Mom is actually blocking out most of Dad.

Anonymous said...

um...no good excuses, I'll do better.