Sunday, February 6, 2011

First day in Kiev

When we arrived yesterday morning, Sveta took us to a market so we could get food and water for the next couple days. It was nice because there were not many people in the market at that time of the moring.  While in the check out line a gentleman behind us ask if he could go in front of us, he only had one item, and we let him.  When he was finished checking out he removed his hat and with a sweeping gester he preformed a bow, it made us all laugh and smile.  After we were settled in the apartment Vika called Olya, and Rusa on skype, she misses her friends.  Later when we were all showered and ready we took a short walk outside, and when we got back to the apartment Sasha called and ask if Vika wanted to go ice skating. He drove us to a new mall with three floors, the top floor had an ice rink, roller rink, movie theater, bumper cars, and a large area for small children to play in. It was very clean and bright, most of the stores were clothing stores for adults. We walked around for a while and then Mick and Vika skated. Mick said the rink was very smooth and had a better surface than the one in Krivey Rig but was more crowded. Vika liked this rink also, she only fell once and was skating backwards and trying to pick up one leg and put it out behind her.
We had to walk back from the mall, it took about half and hour, Vika was not pleased about this, but we stopped at the open air market and got her a DVD so that made the trip better.  Mick and I do not mind walking, we enjoy knowing different places we can go by walking. There is no snow here, just mud, and the wind was blowing yesterday but the tempreture was not bad.
We are not sure what we are we are going to do today we are hoping to have fun. Vika mentioned ice skating again, I we would like to walk through the open air market.

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