On the bright side...

Today we got up early and headed to Cherkassy!  Less than $2 for a 1 1/2 hour ride!  Looked around for souveniers but couldn't find any.  It is so funny - people lined up all over the street selling outdated Avon products.  It was a nice break in our schedule (even though our kids didn't like we weren't coming today). 

Went for pizza - was so looking forward to it after a bad food day yesterday.  We went to our main restaurant in town and it was closed for a funeral dinner so we went down the street to another place we had tried to go before but it was always closed.  Music was BLARING and there was no one in there.  The waitress came and gave us a menu and got us some hot tea (Lena thought she used the same bag for all 3 - very weak!).  We started to order and they had nothing we asked for - so we finally asked what they did have!  Between the 3 of us we ordered  borscht, fries, pelmeni and meat.  The borscht was lukewarm (oil had seperated from broth), the potatoes tasted moldy, the pelmeni was sticky - meat was so so -but afraid to finish it.  We decided to just go home and have chocolate.

Back to the pizza -  not exactly mozzarella cheese and it wasn't much to my liking.  Julie and Lena liked it okay, but I was disappointed after the bad food day yesterday (we only eat one meal a day) - On the bright side though before we left Cherkassy we stopped at McDonald's and had a hamburger, fries and cherry pie!  Tasted wonderful!!! 

Bought a few things at the store today and stopped at the internet cafe as ours wasn't working last night or this morning.  Got on the cold bus to go back to our apartment.  The funny thing is - the situation was so "ukrainian"!  The bus station sells bus tickets, but the driver also sells them on the side, the inspector comes to count how many people and how many tickets were paid for and there were 4 more people than had bought tickets.  The bus driver negotiates it down to paying her for 2 (they both pocket the money!).  As we are pulling out past the station - another 5 people got on the bus!  Lena told us that bus drivers are wealthy!  So funny!

We are hoping to be able to pick up the kids tomorrow and spend some time with just them.  I bought some games to play with them and have some movies.  We will see......

No hot water again tonight - I joked about not being able to shave my legs but on the bright side it is at least keeping me warm!