We made it back to the village around 6 am Saturday morning in Victor's blue van- he met us at the train station in Dnepropetroesk when we arrived around 4:45 am - it was light out of course, since it's summer!
It was a long trip- delayed almost 2 hours leaving Toronto for Rome, where Garry was so tired because he didn't sleep much on the very old plane- all the seats were full and uncomfortable felt like sitting on rocks but at least he didn't have the small child who kicked and banged on the seat back that was behind me (his parents were going to buy him a red truck for being so well-behaved) - Garry laid down on the cement floor and slept for a couple hours on his back, with his arms laid out y shaped at his sides, I didn't take a photo but several stranger took one of him!
We got on a bus to go out and around to our plane a couple hours later on time, but thenafter everyone was seated, something was up with computer systems ground control, that meant we sat for two hours on the plane before take-off. It also meant we landed in Kiev just after 7 pm, and luckily got through passport control and luggage pickup quickly and got a taxi instead of a bus, because our train was leaving at 8:27 and the train station is a drive from the airport- the taxi driver said 25- 30 minutes, there was a slow up at the bridge- a truck was broke down in one lane backing traffic up- but we arrived around 8 pm, I watched the suitcses at the top of the stairs while Garry ran over to Mc Donalds to get some dinner - those crackers on the plane were not very filling! We got on after going down two setsof stairs and back up tow, dragging all the suitcases and bags all the way to wagon (car ) 16 with ten minutes to spare.
We shared our compartment with a mom and little boy about four, wearing glasses and waving Poca (goodbye ) to Papa, so we gave them the bottom bunks- good thing because the little guy fell out of bed at 3 am! The only problem was getting our luggage out from under the little guy's bunk at 4:30 because they were going all the way to Zaporosia! we woke up his mother who held him, stll sleeping while Garry got them out of the box under "our" bunk.
Now if I can adjust to sleeping again, since I start teaching Monday morning at the Summer English Institute, and my body has decided that 2- 3 hours is enough now! I'll try to get some crop photos, it is still really dry here, in fact the guys made some of the corn fields into silage while we were gone before they dried up all together. One big field, the one that did not get cultivated, is still growing and hopefully a little more rain will keep it going, or it will be silage in couple weeks, too. They had trouble buying straw to bale with really short straw on the whaet with the dry spring/summer so far, so it came dear, but there is some in the barn now.
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