Friday, April 9, 2010

Ukraine Spring Report #1

Report #1 for April 8th 2010

Praise the Lord for a good trip back to Lviv from Winnipeg. We travelled with Lufthansa and Air Canada and was very pleased with the connections and in-flight service.

Nick Mazerolle from Mitchell Manitoba, is with me for his first time. It will be an eye opener in many ways as the culture is so different. For instance, we went to get some money changed and changed at a little window right on the sidewalk, not inside a bank like we are used to. You couldn’t even see the teller!

We had an hour’s sleep mid afternoon and then had supper. By 9:30 we were finished physically and headed for bed. We both had a good nights sleep and were awake at 7ish.

Good news is that there is water 24/7 now and hot water as well so had a good shower.

Flo made us crepes for breakfast, I think she is concerned about our weight, only putting it on, not taking it off!

David Winkles is also with us and will be with Flo until she goes home. We all headed out to visit the young children’s orphanage, quite close to our home here. They knew we were coming and so the children put on a lovely song and dance display for us. It was really lovely; they were about 4 to 5 years old. We gave out candy and balloons and I spoke for about 5 minutes, then we gave glasses to the staff that needed them.

We finished up down town shopping at Vernasage Market getting some gifts to bring home.

We are not planning much more today as we will no doubt suffer from Jet lag later today. The boys have gone for a walk as I have now got on line.

Will close off now.

Malcolm

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