A day off

We had planned on Sunday after church getting together with some of our English teacher friends getting together at Lena's apartment on Thursday (everyone is excited that Stacy has come to Ukraine so early before the start of the yearly English teaching Institute.) Since Garry had "nothing to do" with the silage finished we went in early and ordered the generator Garry and Victor had looked into on Monday - by dropping off a deposit of cash so it would be ordered. Garry had no trouble finding the place again, and drove over the curb parked on the sidewalk (like all the other cars) and went in. Stacy and I sat in the car and checked out the rock band grafitti on the wall in front of the car.

Then Garry went over to drop off a bag at Victor's (Jonah mom is sending those shorts you forgot to pack) and we went down Robotcha Street to pick up Tanya for the trip to a different part of Dnepropetroesk to visit Lena. Garry had not driven there in over a year and we missed the direct route- there is a large metalugic factory and railroad tracks that block off where we were from the river drive where we wanted to be to get to the district where she lives. There was a number of streets that were not the one we were looking for when we tried going down them, but eventually we arrived at the right place. Dima her 12 year old son met us and we followed him to the apartment (we had only been to her English class nearby before.)

It turned out that Lena had not cancelled our lunch even though she had been in hospital with her baby until the day before. Little Maxim is 9 months old, and seemed to be feeling better- he smiled at Garry alot. He had a high fever on Monday, and had been on an IV in the hospital. We had a lovely time talking and looking at pictures.



We left around 5 pm, and drove past the "palace" on Rabocha where we had seen a sign for Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Russian (the design of the logo is the same) while going to pick up Tanya. The tickets were free, and Tanya invited us to her apartment for a bit to eat (she managed to cook us potato, meat and salad in 15 minutes while we watched part of Jesus Christ Superstar on DVD- we had somehow started talking about musicals and Garry had started singing it as we walked to the apartment. Then we left for the show up the street-one minute before seven- parked right in front of the building and went in, got our free tickets- Garry and Stacy put a donation in the box- and were seated before the curtain went up.(I even took this photo of Tanya and Stacy checking out the program in Russian before.) We have been inside the building many times- Tanya teaches English upstairs, but never inside the theatre before- it is beautiful. We had a great time watching the singers, dancers, and listening to the songs- which were all in Russian- of course we did know the Bible story it is based on, but we had never seen the production in English! It seemed to have been sponsored by some churches and the director spoke in English about coming and working with the group for 4 weeks before the show (last night was the first of three nights.)