We woke up early - even before the students arrived to milk at 4:30. Apparently Garry's lecture on good employees being on time was very effective, now just not tall Maxim shows up very early but all the boys... somehow we were were awake at 3 am, Garry went back to sleep for a while but I discovered that the Flyers game was on live on the Russian Hockey channel and watched the third period, they were up by two goals and just managed to win after the Penguins tied it up with 2 minutes left, with the Flyers scoring 30 seconds later. Near the end of the game the boys arrived, Garry had unlocked the door early, when he got up at 3, but there was a great amount of bag rustling noises....they keep their work clothes at our house and change in Andrei's room. I popped my head out of our room during a stoppage in play and discovered that Sasha and Maxim K were on the morning shift.
We were all ready for our trip, as Garry left to teach at 9 am, he told me to put everything in the car so we would be ready to leave as soon as my class was over, he'd pick me up at the school. However,
(to continue, I accidentally published this before we went for a walk)
I finished teaching, and no Garry, so I walked home (it's a short walk) and went in the house....no Garry. I had opened the gate so he could back the car out. His computer bag was there, so he had come home from class. His little suitcase was still on the bed unpacked, so I packed it for him and threw it in the car and tried phoning him again. Still no answer.
Finally I got through to him. He, Victor, Maxim and a few others were over at the traade school barn property. The people had returned to take the road, so he would be back soon. He had already talked to the lady from church we were picking up in Dnepro to go along to Kramatorsk (her son is the pastor there) and told her we'd we later.
Take the road ... you thinking...what? How? Yes, the road going up to the three barns was apparently sold to someone by the guy who had them before and they had come back to get it. Three guys with two cranes had shown up on Saturday last week, but they had been scared off by greater numbers of questioning people, yesterday there were twenty people working quickly to pull up and remove the big slabs of cement that are the road to the barns. One guy flashed some paperwork with blue stamps at Victor, Garry phoned different authorities, but of course, by the time the officials, lawyers, get things in motion, it will all be gone (like the end of the day today) We just have paperwork for one barn, and a few other things there, not the entire site. We hope to have the paperwork done for the middle barn among other things by next week, as we are buying it... and Maxim has caught people over there taking stuff,,, like the big doors off the middle barn in the past month. Why not, Garry doesn't own it?
This all started with an incident that happened during the first week Garry was back while I was in NJ. I'll tell you about it in my next post.
Anyway, I started reading a book on the couch while waiting for Garry, I was starting to doze off when I noticed it was 1:20, I phoned, and he said he was coming now. So we left about 1:30 for our hopefully 4 1/2 hour drive to Kramatorsk . We found Luda at an intersection in Dnepropetroesk, and after a slow trip down to the river, the traffic on the left bank was better, we were through the city and onto the highway,
Then it started to rain a little, then snow, it was just over freezing, No windshield washer fluid, stop at the gas station for some. Better visibility through the window, misty snowy outside, but not bad, not too many potholes at first.
Then after the city of Pavlgrad (I think) the road was horrible, more holes than road, traffic was going about 20 Km per hour, weaving all over the road, still snowing a little, sticking to the road...
Eventually it got so there was more road than holes again, still snowing and getting dark as we left the highway to Donetsk to take the smaller roads to Kramatorsk . Still snowing, misty, almost drizzle at times. Thanks to Garry's driving and the GPS, we made it arriving about 7:30 ish, then had to find the church in the dark, where some of Doreen's English class was still waiting to meet us.. we had a late dinner and a good sleep on Doreen's couch/ sofa bed last night!
Our afternoon walk in Kramatorsk...
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| Doreen and Garry lead the way |
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| Inside the post office |
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| Crossing the street- you see many ladies with a bag and a cane |
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| Someone upgraded the play area by the apartment |
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