A pleasant drive

 When we left at seven am on Wednesday morning, with our bags of stuff for Adam, Luba (that we'd brought from Canada) and Curtis, since I'd packed up some walnuts, honey, a couple bottles of milk, and some leftover brown sugar and peanut butter from the Crawfords to share with our fellow Canadians).  We were anticipating the normal drive to Kirvoy Rog, bad roads, lots of potholes, and sections so bad people drive beside the highway to preserve their car and tires. Garry checked the spare tire and tire changing equipment the night before on the little Geely car. We had debated the trip, because the weather forecast kept changing from rain to snow and back to rain all week, but it was wet and foggy as we left (without Misha, who wanted to come but did not get to our house in time, based on his phone calls he overslept by at least a half hour, he wanted to pick up some stuff he left there last year when he returned after trade school.)

I didn't take any crocheting, since I knew the roads would mostly be too bumpy to do anything. Next time we drive there, I will know better and bring some, because, while not completely finished with the sides, and second layer of asphalt in some places, all the road is good. Even the two lane parts have been repaved, there's miles and miles of four lane. Even the rain didn't matter, and we didn't hit a hole until we went under the overpass to the city, an hour ahead of schedule.

Anyway we found Adam and Luba around ten o'clock, in spite of the GPS on Garry's phone cutting out repeatingly as we tried to find the right apartment building. We had a lovely time talking after carrying our bags up with their goodies. It's been a while since we'd seen them, and we found out their exciting news while eating sirniki that Luba was making. They have a baby on the way next summer. 

Updated - I seem to have lost part of this post! We had a tour of the church buildings with Adam,checkinghecking out how the big building work is going. The kitchen looks grwat.

We had lunch and hung out with Adam's team. They have been able to visit orphanages at times during the pandemic by getting tested. We played a game called bang in Russian, and enjoyed hanging out, since we hadn't seen them in a while. We couldn't believe how time flew by, until we headed home around three pm.