Shopping trip

Friday morning we set out in the van for Zaporosia with Max Rudei, Nelly, Kolya and Oksana. We stopped along main street to pick up a salesman that was going to Vasilevka with Garry and Max to look at sprayers. We are finally able to sell the sunflowers and that is what the guys are going to buy with the profits this year, along with seed and fertilizer for spring planting.  The sprayer they have now is not up to the job, they had to rent one this year for a lot of the spraying.

On the way past the market they dropped the rest of us off, we were on  mission to buy a wedding dress. Kolya needed to get a new set of passport photos taken so he could register in this region and get married. If all goes well the wedding will be on December 2nd and they will move into their own apartment (we have two empty ones right now). He went get the photos done when we found the first bridal shop. Good thing I wore my sneakers as we walked uphill a long way!
Oksana tried on three dresses. One was very beautiful, but I did not have that much cash in my pocket. Not even for the rental, that's right you can rent instead of buy! The price was about half to 2/3 the price of buying.

the expensive dress

We walked some more up the hill and to the left and found another shop. Nelly kept stopping people to ask for directions. Kolya found us, again, so in this shop he got to drink coffee in the front of the shop while the ladies tried three more dresses on Oksana.
Finally I got them to try on the one on sale, which also made her look like a princess, so we bought that one. It was less than half of the others, so I had enough to even get a fur jacket to wear with it.  Kolya carried the bag down the hill for us. You'll have to wait for the photos of the real dress in December.

We waited for the guys to get back. They had to hurry as Garry was teaching in Dnepro at four, and it was after two when they picked us up. They were successful in that they decided that they should buy the more expensive yellow model as the green was was not well built. The metal was much more heavy duty they tell me, so it should last for years.

He took photos with my phone, since I had the camera and we accidentally sent his smart phone home to Manitoba in his suit after the funeral. After a week he has his number back on one of our old phones to use until we get home.