Kiev with the Crawfords

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Here we are traveling in style on the InterCity train. We left the village at 5:30 am to catch the 7 am train. Garry and the Crawfords played cribbage while I crocheted. We got to Kiev around one o'clock, checked in to our hotel and went for lunch at Puzata Hata (cafeteria style restaurant) which was crowded.

After we went on the Metro (subway) and went to Maidan square and the St Sophia church, which dates back to the eleventh century I believe. We even climbed the bell tower. 208 steps up and then 208 down. Scott and Shannon counted.

 Then we took the funicular (inclined railroad) and walked some more before heading back to the hotel and getting Domino's pizza for dinner. Thursday we were going to the farm show.

After a good night's sleep we checked out (Garry put his baggage in storage) and headed out on the very crowded subway to find the stop near the show. After a few stops the car was less packed and we even got seats before we got to the correct stop for the farm show.

Unfortunately we picked the wrong side of the station to exit and had to walk further in the cool breeze (maybe cold wind) to cross the street. However we enjoyed waking around seeing things at the show. Garry found some water monitoring things to help decide when to add more irrigation water in the corn fields this summer. He even got to buy them and carry them home as it was the last day of the show. It was the first and last booth we went to, with about four or five hours between visits.

Garry said this is just like our pump for irrigation we bought

Now you can spell corn in Russian!

Bank mascots and Garry

there were robots and milking systems

The Canadian Ukrainian dairy guy knew Garry

Garry managed to find several people who knew him, or be found by them, including a Canadian who farms in Ukraine who was at the show, Roland. We visited his home in Ukraine several years ago.

How girls take photos with farm  machinery

After the show, we headed back on the Metro (which was crowded again at 2 in the afternoon) to the station near the train station, picked up Garry's carry-on bag. We discovered Shannon's backpack was unzipped but nothing was missing. Not sure if it happened on the subway or in the jam of people going up the escalator. I had my new thief proof backpack on, with hidden zippers. They may look into buying one. We went to Mc Donalds and hung out killing time until the 5:30 train back to Dnepro. We ate our dinners, read, played some games, they three all slept some, too. We arrived in Dnepro around 11 pm and got our car out of the lot and Garry drove home to the village and bed.