Day #6

Made it to Kryvyi Rih!
Vitalia picked us up at 8:20 last night and got to the train station a little early so went across the street to the super market and got some food for the train since we didn't have time before we left. Oh boy how many details do you want about the train?:) It def wasn't a first class luxury liner, but it served the purpose. Since it was an overnight train you buy beds instead of seats and Vitalia advised us to buy 4 so we could have the whole room to ourselves and are we ever glad we did, would have been quite less than ideal to have another passenger with us! :) there were 4 bunks in a room with a small table under the window and a little walkway between the 2 bunks. It was a very old train and left so much to be desired. The bathroom was horrible:(( You could barely squeeze in it and then it was full of something all over the floor which I really didn't want to know what it was beings the faucet didn't work so knew it wasn't from that and I have always considered toilet paper a necessity, but not required on this train :) Pey managed to sleep 4-5 hours, but Bill and my quality of sleep we did get was rather questionable. Arrived on time and was greeted by the regional facilitator, Yurina and her husband. We sorta kinda got all our luggage in the little car, had to leave the seats tipped forward because they wouldn't latch back and had Pey on my lap and big suitcase between us in the back.. was thankful we weren't in for a 2 hour ride! :) Got to our apartment and decided the train was a good start to breaking us in! I knew we had it nice in Kiev and wasn't expecting it out here, but wasn't expecting to rough it quite this bad either!! Maybe the description will have to come another day and will just say that this spoiled American is used to a LOT more luxury and space!
One really neat thing is our apartment is backed up to the orphanage!! I heard children outside before when I was out and tried peaking through a crack in the wall, but couldn't see past all the bed sheets flapping in the sunshine! If I knew our little one was out there I might get more serious about scaling the wall! HA 8:30 tomorrow morning has been successful in taking forever to get here!!!
We took showers and went to find the grocery store and hopefully a restaurant for something to eat. The market is right close to our apartment, but no restaurant. Didn't find any meat that we were brave enough to try, and no vegetables so not sure what all we gonna feast on for the next few weeks! Did pass several vendors selling a few fruits and vegetables, bought a big bag of potatoes for $.50  so might be having a lot of potato dishes :)
Finally got all of our clothes unpacked and organized. Will be so nice to not scrounge through suitcases to get ready!
The weather continues to be wonderful! This morning getting off of train and at apartment it was quite cool, but now when we walked to the market it had warmed up and wouldn't have needed our jackets anymore.
Think we are going to catch a couple hours of our missed sleep from last night and then want to do a little something special for Sunday. Hard to believe it's really Sunday! I brought stuff along to have SS with Pey so will try and have our own little church service way over here :)
Just remembering a funny from Pey... Bill turns the water on in the shower this morning and hollers out that we don't have much pressure and Pey sighs while looking around the apartment and calmly says, 'we don't have many blessings and joy here do we mama?' :) Didn't have his big words quite right, but I knew what he meant:)
Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday!!
P.S. I haven't been getting all the e-mails:( I have replied to every one I get so if you have sent or no of someone that has and I didn't reply that means I didn't get it!