I have a little more time this morning and a new dial up internet card so I thought I would backtrack and let you know a bit of what we have been up to.
Aug 19th we flew in the late morning from STL to CHI and it was very uneventful. Then 9 hrs on a Luthansa flight to Frankfurt. I hope I am not speaking too soon (as we still have to get home!) but Luthansa was awesome! Yes we flew coach -- I typically assume those that still like to fly must always go first class since coach seems to get more unpleasant everytime I fly. But not this time - yes it was cramped. But very comfortable. The attendents were awesome and the food was very good.
The Frankfurt airport was interesting. Everything was in English and most folks were able to understand us. But they have taken airport security to a max! Just to get to our transfer flight - 2 pat down searches and 3 passport checkins. But I rest assurred that no one of crimminal nature would be that patient and we would have a safe flight as a result!!
We had a few hours to kill so we sacked out in the airport lobby. The flight itself was a bit loud, cramped and smelly but then again we were pretty tired.
We arrived in Kiev and made it through customs and picked up our luggage all within about 20 minutes :-) Our facilitator (Vanya) and our driver (Sasha) were there and we headed out. We were still have difficulty accepting the fact that we were really there.........in Ukraine..... wow!
We must have said a hundred times "I wish 'A' was here". Up to now that has been our only regret ... not taking our daughter (age 16) on this trip. It does not seem right for her not to be here. :-(
Our apartment in Kiev was really nice. I will try to upload some pics....
We had some dinner at Marios and then tried our best to stay awake until dark. We failed miserably and sacked out about 7pm ;-)
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