Wetter weather

Garry's family flew out on Wednesday and it was raining in the morning, so they couldn't do anything outside in the morning. Garry was all ready to get his dad to rake leaves, but instead they watched the baseball game replay (live they are on during the middle of the night, so they re-show them during the day) After dinner we went with them to the airport in Dnepro two hours before their 3:20 flight.

This Maserati was still parked in front of the airport that night

We were picking up our new overnight guests- the Porters, who were returning to Ukraine- from the airport at 8:30 so we had time to kill instead of driving back to the village. We went bowling first, traffic was busy going downtown, maybe because of the rain. We had a good time, one of the bowling employees even shook Garry's hand in greeting, he went twice while I was gone, and bowled by himself. I won the first game, and we almost finished 5 games in our hour (Garry threw one ball in the 10th frame), then we got ice cream at Mc Donalds to cool off before leaving Most City Centre mall. We then drove over the Robocha street to look for a bookstore Garry wanted to find. We found it, but they could not help him with the book he wanted. They sold mostly books for teaching English, but no one there seemed to understand English.

The biilboard on the right is for the movie Stalingrad

Then we went to the Dafi mall and bought movie tickets for Stalingrad in 3D and had a quick bite to eat at Garry's favorite new place there, the Oststree Wok (it means spicy-hot) before watching the 2 hour 15 minute movie. It was in Russian with Ukrainian subtitles (Hollywood films are always dubbed in Ukrainian, so we could understand more of this movie than the last time we went to one.) Lots of action and explosions, plus a love story of course. Then we picked up our guests and headed for home, in the rain of course.

Garry was disappointed that they were unable to find a combine to get the corn harvested before this rain came,but at least the winter wheat was all planted. The first field they planted was looking green on Tuesday already. He says the new seeder did a great job, no missed spots in the field. Hopefully when the rain stops falling and it dries out they will be able to get someone to combine. They may run out of grain before then and have to buy some for the cows to eat however, as the barley and wheat they saved is all ground and disappearing fast.

On Thursday and Friday it poured most of the day, making the ducks in the village happy. We drove into Dnepro on Thursday afternoon to meet Victor with the milk he sells on Thursdays, as he was driving the Porters home that afternoon. Garry ended up selling milk at the first place he goes, the apartment complex where Victor used to live. Saturday was more overcast, with peeks of sun and sprinkles and wind, so hopefully the weather is changing. However fall in Ukraine tends toward cool days with misty rain, so let's hope it gets dry soon.

Driving into the apartment block, luckily the rain has almost stopped

Garry selling milk on a bench

more in the car!

We met Victor after this and transfered the jugs of milk, sleevki (cream) and cheese (dry curd cottage cheese, I can't say it in Russian) over to his vehicle so I did not see the second place that he sells milk at. If Victor is unable to sell it, then Garry goes to the places and sells to the customers instead, this happens a few times each season, a good way to practice language.