When I talked to Garry last night (Monday morning in Ukraine) he said that he was glad he was not driving to Kiev to pick us up Tuesday afternoon, not just because the car isn’t working but because about 5 inches of snow fell Sunday night. He still hopes to get the car off to get fixed and pick up the “new” old Precept (wagon) he bought from the big farmer- it needs a few repairs before they can use it. The one we have been using belongs to one of our neighbors in the village that we rent land from. So far Garry has gotten one load of hay home- he hopes to get about ten this time, but it is more difficult to get there, get loaded and weighed and get home than in the fall (now with the snow covering the pile of hay to load- even more) so only one load a day now.
Micah and Noah drove us to the airport in Winnipeg this morning- it took a while even in Josh’s truck- Manitoba had fresh snow that had made drifts- even on Highway 1’s slow lane, and traffic slowed to a crawl even before we reached the city limits (it was just getting to daylight as you can see in the photo taken downtown). But we still arrived at the airport almost 2 hours before our flight to Toronto was scheduled to leave, since we left home at 6:30 am. The boys killed time with Seth's mp3 player and Jonah's nook (e book reader) while I read a book. Our flight is scheduled for a ten minute delay, but we have 3 hours between flights in Toronto before we head to Rome “overnight” departing 4:30 in the afternoon and landing at 7:15 am local time in Rome.
The plane took off about a half hour delayed but we hsve plenty of time to enjoy the free wi-fi since we made it over to the gate about an hour before boarding. The boys are hunting for some real Canadian food to buy before we leave. They had a breakfast snadwich at the Winnipeg airport, but I didn't buy them any food on the the flight- I did have to put three dollars on the credit card since they only had one set of ear buds in the bag, and I couldn't find any in my purse.
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