Playgrounds, Churches & Food Markets

Daddy giving Andrew a Piggy back ride in our apt.

Today we did some laundry, watched movies in the apartment until just after lunch. Then we ventured out to 2 different playgrounds both on either side of St.Michael’s Church. Andrew was excited since the playground yesterday didn’t have swings and these two did. Here are some pictures of the playgrounds and of St. Michael’s and St. Sofia’s Church. There were a couple of couples getting married today at St.Michael’s church(a beautiful blue and white church that has an arch in the back of the church where couples get married under.


Teeter totter behind St. Michaels church


Mommy on castle slide-LOL



St.Sophia's Church Bell Tower


Andrew & Mommy in front of St. Michaels Church

Wedding Arch in back of St.Michaels church.

The weather here is in the twenties today and overcast. No wind or precipitation. Today must have been some sort of holiday kind of like Valentines Day. There were many people walking around with flowers in there hands (that they were holding upside down) or balloons and many men and women holding hands and kissing in the city. Or maybe since it was a Friday it was like date night or something. Any thoughts or insight, Boris??(my Ukrainian born friend from work)


Daddy & Andrew in front of St. Michaels Church

After the park we went to the Underground Mall food court to get an early dinner. On our way home we discovered another internet café at the post office. So we stopped and updated the blog since we didn’t have time to do it yesterday. We also came across a large market that was like a huge produce, fish and meat store. The produce was beautiful so we bought some cherries, which were way overpriced even for home standards but since they looked so beautiful and were the size of ping pong balls Robert opt to get them. We also bought some grapes and pistachio nuts. The pistachio nuts were really good and had a different salty flavor to them. The meats were surprisingly out in the open on a table with people behind them trying to sell them to you. One guy had all of the meat laid out and had his newspaper laying overtop the unwrapped meat. He was reading his paper with it laying over the unwrapped meat. How’s that for sanitary and quality assurance Catelli Brothers? (a veal and lamb manufacturer where I used to work.) www.catellibrothers.com A great selling feature…ehh? Most of the fish vendors were the same in the way they presented the fish except for one. One fish vendor out of all had their fish on ice. All of the other meat and fish vendors didn’t have the meat or fish on ice at all. Very surprising. The shrimp here were huge though. The shrimp was larger than an average size banana. You could make a meal out of the shrimp alone.

On our way back from the produce and meat market we there was a line of about 40 or so people standing outside a mini restaurant that sold Ukrainian hot dogs with another 15 or so people standing around eating the hot dogs. From what Alla says it’s a cheap meal from a fast food place (about 3 grivnas which is about .50 cents). That’s all for today. Until tomorrow.