Happy Easter!!!!

Happy Easter to all our friends and family in the US. It is weird, since it is not Easter here. They follow the orthodox calander so Easter is on 4/27. We will be long since gone, so technically we are missing Easter this year. T is imagining all his friends getting candy in the am, and to him it is just another day. We will celebrate when we get home. We will do the egg hunt and everything..just late. We celebrated Good Friday by watching the Passion of the Christ, so we will, by ourselves, celebrate His rising at breakfast.

The climate here is alot like home in the spring. It is about 40-45 everyday, and today it was sunny. The flowers are beginning to come up. The landscape, trees, etc. are alot like Michigan. They have white birch trees, poplars, and evergreens. But even thought it is spring, it is a very dismal town...gray and mud everywhere. I am trying to take a variety of pictures, but everything looks the same. Every once in awhile, a business owner will paint the front of their building a wild color...bright yellow, neon green, etc. At first it seems a little gaudy, but after looking at all the gray, it isn't so bad.

Everyone in the city lives in apartment buildings very similar to the one we are in. Big metal entrance doors, narrow cement dark stairwells, but once you get through the doors to the actual apartment, they aren't that bad. They have done the best they can. They are very small...most are probably smaller than our garage. But this is what they have, so they make the best of it. We visited the town's version of HD or Lowe's. It is about 1000 sq ft. I will try to post pictures.

They have about 30 different types of ketchup. Ketchup w/garlic, w/onions, w/peppers, w/tobasco, with pretty much any combo you can imagine. They use it for pasta sauce as well, and most of their grocery packaging is much different than ours.

Today we went to visit LK, by ourselves, K called us a cab to and from the orphanage. Lk is getting a little bored of the visits and then us leaving, I know he is wondering how long before we get to just take him home. To be honest, I am ready to be home, but we are managing. I know we will have a new appreciation for all the little things in life.

Love you all