We left Denver 2pm Sunday July 7 and arrived in Kyiv Monday at 4:30pm. Kyiv is 9 hrs ahead of Denver. The service on Lufthansa was great. We had a long lay over in Munich but the airport was clean and we had our last "large" cup of coffee and a great pretzel.
The flt to Kyiv was quite an eclectic group from business men to families to one step up from carrying live stock. When they said we can board, everyone ran and pushed their way through the gate, note we had assigned seats. Makes you appreciate the US boarding process. The man in our row stunk so bad so Stephen got to sit next to him.
Kyiv airport is old and doesn't have terminals inside, so we exited outside and a bus took us to the main terminal. We must of looked very American, our customs VIP service picked us right out of the crowd and our agency picked us out as well. Alex got us through customs, a man of few words, half the time we didn't know where he was. We collected our luggage, it all arrived, and we were met by Sasha, the driver, Sergay and our interpreter Christina and headed for the hotel. The weather has been very pleasant, 70s, but the humidity and my hair are another story.
We decide the stay in a hotel instead of with the host family. We are in the Opera, a new hotel downtown. Nice size room and bathroom for Europe. We completed the adoption money exchange at the hotel right away, we were relieved to pass the money on quickly.
Everyone at the hotel speaks English and the menus are in English. We ate dinner at the hotel, Stephen went for the Ukraine favorite, borsh soup, which was very good and I stayed with the reliable chicken ceasar salad. Afterwards we walked around the city. A new mall is close by, but it was closed, so we had one more cappuccino to stay awake for the walk back to the hotel.
The flt to Kyiv was quite an eclectic group from business men to families to one step up from carrying live stock. When they said we can board, everyone ran and pushed their way through the gate, note we had assigned seats. Makes you appreciate the US boarding process. The man in our row stunk so bad so Stephen got to sit next to him.
Kyiv airport is old and doesn't have terminals inside, so we exited outside and a bus took us to the main terminal. We must of looked very American, our customs VIP service picked us right out of the crowd and our agency picked us out as well. Alex got us through customs, a man of few words, half the time we didn't know where he was. We collected our luggage, it all arrived, and we were met by Sasha, the driver, Sergay and our interpreter Christina and headed for the hotel. The weather has been very pleasant, 70s, but the humidity and my hair are another story.
We decide the stay in a hotel instead of with the host family. We are in the Opera, a new hotel downtown. Nice size room and bathroom for Europe. We completed the adoption money exchange at the hotel right away, we were relieved to pass the money on quickly.
Everyone at the hotel speaks English and the menus are in English. We ate dinner at the hotel, Stephen went for the Ukraine favorite, borsh soup, which was very good and I stayed with the reliable chicken ceasar salad. Afterwards we walked around the city. A new mall is close by, but it was closed, so we had one more cappuccino to stay awake for the walk back to the hotel.
3 comments:
Glad to hear that all is well. I am sorry to hear that Stephen lost at rock, paper, sissor, and had to sit in the bad seat! Good luck with the Ministry (?). Remember, we are living vivaciously through your blog, so Send more pictures!!!!!!
A Caeser salad and a pretzel! Where's your sense of adventure? Eventhough, it sounds like a great trip thus far. I'm with Jack, I want to see more pictures:)
Very glad to hear from you two. I've been thinking about you since Sunday and am very glad to hear the trip (minus the smelly guy) was not so bad. Good luck with the SDA and I third Jack and Wendy. More pictures please!! Maybe on Flickr.com? Can't wait to see the kids...but then again, I bet you can't either! :o)
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