How do you spell Kiev in English? Not that way according to our GPS! I guess it spells like it sounds- British. Thursday morning, someone tapped on the bedroom window to wake Garry up to help with the milk sale (mostly carrying the cans out to the vehicle.) Maxim was off to visit his family on Tuesday evening after we returned from the boys' dentist appointment, and to buy a new welder in Khersom. Victor's old welder was stolen back in the summer, and we had borrowed one like it from one of the neighbors. However to do some seroius welding we needed to buy a better welder. Max also helped his mother buy a heifer calf, so he returned about 10:30 Thursday morning.
Garry was quite excited to have another heifer calf- a very black one Thursday morning, from a very wide black cow. The cow had 9 liters her first milking, so she should be a good one. Garry and I left to drive to Kiev. We had hoped to take the overnight train Thursday evening to see the Farm Show there, but there were no more tickets for sale to return on either the express or the overnight on Friday to Dnepro.
When we left the village it was snowing, and the roads were sloppy for the first hour or two, but then it cleared up. We ending up driving through McDonald's about halfway to Kiev for lunch around 3 o'clock, trying out the new Ukrainian burger special which is a big burger with the works (bacon optional) on a dark rye bun.
We got to Kiev after dark, following the GPS to the center of the city, where I took some photos around 7 pm. Then we followed the GPS over to the exhibition hall, and tried to find a hotel nearby. It was an exercise in frustration when the GPS kept taking us to what it said was a hotel, but it wasn't-mostly apartment buildings.
Finally we headed further away, ending up near the circus (and train station.) The first couple of real hotels there were full, so we ended up in a beautiful expensive place,(that's the lobby in the photo- marble floors, and there was a white grand piano at the back near the elevators) the Opera Hotel, at TEN PM.
After a good night's sleep on a very nice bed (as you can see) we headed off to the show shortly after 9 am. I'll tell you all about it in my next post.
We arrived back in the village at 9:30 pm,(Friday) after a stop in Dnepro to pick up some welding supplies for Maxim at Victor's house. While it didn't snow in Kiev, Dnepropetroesk and the village got at least four more inches of snow!
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