Day #11

Had a very interesting day, but when I try to think what to write it's hard. So much of the experience is being here to see it, smell it, and witness it all, so after I write a post describing something it seems so blah and nondescript when in reality it is quite amazing!! :)
My eyes are drooping so going to just copy and paste an email to a friend of what we did today..

As you know we are just waiting on adoption related activities so we made our own fun today.. took the metro to the city center. We had to walk about a mile to the closest metro station and then the metro is an experience all in its self! Nothing like you've ever seen, I honestly had to wonder if it would hold up till our destination, but it actually did and even kept going :) Didn't know what station to get off at as we can't seem to find a metro map so we just had to wing it! Got off at the station where the most people seemed to be getting off and it seemed just a touch nicer than previous stations and low and behold it actually was where we wanted to be! :) We were hoping to find something to DO, but never did so just ended up walking around exploring stores, stopping at parks, getting icecream at McDonalds etc. It is so much fun to watch Pey interact with the children here, they talk to him in Ukrainian and he talks to them in English and  they all get along just fine! :) Wish it was that easy for us!! We stopped at a little kiosk for dinner and had a burrito type thing... they start with a big rectangle burrito then put sour cream, ketchup, shredded cabbage, shredded cooked carrots, thinly sliced cucumbers and tomatoes and then the meat that is quite good. They have a huge chunk of sliced meat on a pole that is slowly turning with a fire on the one side and then he gets a big knife and shaves it off, chops it up a little and puts that in yet and folds it all up and grills it a little on a griddle. We saw these in Moscow and never got one and now we had a kiosk close to our apartment in Kiev that we tried several times to get from and he either was out or the meat wasn't ready so we were glad to finally get to try it! The man was very nice and knew a little English, he was from Persia and he said he remembers how it felt when he came here and didn't know the language! :) 

Came back home and stopped at a supermarket a ways from the house that was quite a bit bigger than our local one here. Found some spices and a few things I have been looking for to make cooking a little more tasty here :) It is so disappointing to cook and nothing taste good:( It just all has an off flavor or funny texture to it. I made a sorta stir fry meat and ate it over rice tonight for  supper and even the rice tasted funny!! How can rice possibly not taste like plain ole rice?! :) It is just amazing to buy groceries here!!! They have just the basics of everything with only one brand of most things and only one size! I'm just thinking of our isle at Wal'mart that has the flour, sugar, spices on it... well here that isle is only about 12 feet long because it only has one brand/size of flour, one brand/size of sugar, 3 different kinds of spices plus salt, soda, and corn starch, and thats IT! Can't seem to find pepper or even basic spices like garlic salt etc. You don't realize how much our stores have until you see one of these! 

Well better shut this off and get my tired little boy ready for bed! He put quite a few miles on his little legs today and with no nap is showing signs of a great need of a bed, or actually a couch since this apartment doesn't have any 'bed'. 3 couches and 2 chairs which all pull out into 'beds' :) 

Making memories yes we are!! :)))

Goodnight from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine!