The Market

Today we went to church. The clinic where we are staying is run by a local church so we visited there, which is in a separate building from the clinic. I will try to get a picture later. We really enjoyed the service. Even though the language is different, we are all worshipping the same great God. We even recognized a few of the hymns and sang along in English.


After church, we went to the open air market and wandered around. It was great fun seeing all of the booths and the many different items for sale. Everything from clothes, shoes, books, personal care items, tools, and food - fish, chickens, vegetables, cheeses, milk, etc. We had fun taking it all in. Unfortunately there weren't as many prepared-food vendors as we anticipated so our choices were sparse. We bought "meat" pies from one of the vendors for lunch. It was kind of like a very oily funnel cake with indescribable meat and onions. We saw the orphanage inspector immediately after this photo was taken and she was amazed at how "brave" we were - her words, not ours.

Jason did try the dried squid today and said it was actually VERY tasty - not at all salty and a bit sweet. It was definitely better than the dried fish mentioned in yesterday's post.

This picture is for our sis-in-law, Jennifer. She would love to go boot shopping here. The selection is amazing!! Especially in Kiev, most of the women in Ukraine wear knee-high leather boots. It's quite the fashion statement. Jason keeps trying to convince me to get a pair, but it hasn't worked yet. Today at the market he tried to talk me into getting a hat to match his. I tried them all on and settled on a mink hat, but then promptly talked myself out of it. Maybe later......

We missed our visiting time at the orphanage this morning to attend church. We are anxious to get over there this afternoon and visit with that boy some more. Hopefully he didn't forget about us. It's amazing how quickly you bond. It's hard to believe we have only known him 3 days. It seems like a lot longer!