After church with everyone at conference and celebrating Marina’s birthday at lunch, we headed back across Ukraine around 1 pm. First driving through the mountain region, which looks rather Swiss-like in my mind, with the houses, haystacks, and more dual purpose cattle and then heading onto flatter ground. As we approached Liev we saw lots of Holsteins, this continued into the Kiev region. As we travelled through western Ukraine we kept looking for the stork nests we saw on the way to Uzgorod, and I finally got a photo.
We ate dinner just after midnight as we found a Mc Donald’s driving through Kiev. Of course the hotels seemed to disappear after Kiev, but we finally got a room at 2 am. Garry and I were awake at 7 am so we got the boys up, and even found breakfast at Mc Donald’s around 9 (if you want American-style breakfast it’s the place to go- we had mc muffins and big breakfasts)
We arrived back in Dnepro around noon Monday, picked up groceries and headed home to the village. The kittens were disappointed as we forgot to buy a new case of UHT milk, but we got the rest of the necessities. It was sad driving up to the house as our puppy Jordan got sick and died while we were gone. When we get a new puppy it will get a trip to the vet for vaccinations, as the vet said it would have kept her well. We miss her bouncing around under our feet. The kittens may not miss her as much- she thought they were like chew toys to carry around the yard, since they started roaming from the shed a couple weeks ago.
We found piles of ripe sour cherries to pick, along with zucchini and a few green beans in the garden. I made pie, jam and cake. There was no rain while we were gone, but we finally got some Tuesday night (the storms moved around us all day) and a good amount on Wednesday, with only a short power outage.
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