Little K's Day Out

Well we got to spring Little K from the orphanage for the day on Sunday. Our facilitator made arrangements for us to take him to church with us, out for lunch and he didn't have to be back until dinner time. After the day we had, he was probably tired enough to go back and go to sleep.

He didn't know we were taking him until we showed up to get him, what a surprise. When we got to church, he realized he knew the youth director, she had taught english at the orphanage for awhile. He felt very comfortable, and T was very happy to have him out.

After church, it was a nice day, so the boys played on the little playground behind the building that houses the church. It was built by the Pastor from the states who started the church. They are also(with the help of a sponser) refurbishing another building to be a private baby orphanage. They plan on having it ready for occupancy in about June. We have not seen the project yet, but we did meet the superintendant of the project. He is from the states. D and him got to talk business for a while.

Then we walked to the pizza parlor. O and N could not join us, her parents were in town for the weekend, and they wanted to spend some time with them. They have a play area much like chuck e cheese's, only this one you have to pay by the half hour. It is not included in the price of the pizza. They also do birthday parties. It was fun watching the games they were playing. They also have an air hockey table. They boys had a lot of fun...just the beginning.

We needed to pick up the soccer ball to play when we dropped Little K off, and I didn't carry it to church with us, so we had to walk to the apt to get it. We ended up watching professional soccer..Manchester United vs. Arsensal FC. Soccer is huge over here. Our facilitator used to play alot, in fact he played until his first year of college.

When we dropped Little K off, we played some football---soccer. T keeps asking Big K to come ready and wear his sneakers. T thinks Big K is all talk.

Today...Monday, we went to the market to stock up. It was about 70 today and sunny. We were running out of Gryvnas(ukraine $$) so Big K was going to meet us at the square so we could go the the bank and exchange some US currency. Problem was, the US dollar has dropped rapidly in the last 5 days, as the Euro has gone up....so not only is the exchange rate lower...we went to 4 or 5 banks that were not even exchanging US. Big K found one that would, but they rejected 2 bills because they had writing on them and looked too old. We had to pull on some that looked newer and they changed them. Big K wore his sneakers...T was thrilled. So we played soccer all afternoon. Big K is very good...he showed T & K some moves they probably had never seen, and he had some hard shots. I think Big K had as much fun as the boys did. His son does not like soccer so he will not play it with dad...but our boys certainly wore him out today. I'm sure he is going to sleep well tonight.

We received notice that the water to our apt building will be turned off for the day tomorrow. Probably construction related, I don't think each unit had its own shut off, I think it is all one. Anyhow we had to fill up these big bottles so we would have water for the day.

See ya later!!!!