tourism day

Freedom Square, downtown Kiev. Main Street is called Kryshadyk



Brett and Alicia on the bus outside the train station.



St Sofia, one of the many religious sites we saw today.



Alicia loves monkeys. I guess that's why she likes me so much.



It's not like we don't stand out here(except the other day Lena told me a lady at church thought i was Ukraninan until i started talking Alicia)... but today we were walking around with Leesh's camera snapping pictures all over this city.

I thought it was unusual to be in a city whose main attractions are all religious sites. Today we walked with the dead saints in the tombs, stood in on an Orthodox mass, took renegade pictures of red haired ladies and Orthodox be-robed dudes, walked for miles, had a bad experience on a Marshutka bus, rode the world's longest escalators, and ate at McDonalds. And some other stuff. Here's some photos:

Yesterday we got our tickets to Sumy, where we'll be staying most of the rest of our trip. It will be the longest we've stayed in one place since we've been married!

God has got us cradled in his hand here, thanks for loving us, ya'll.

I would like to make a statement. (this is alicia) I have never never liked tea. Unless you count Lora Fulton's tea party a few years ago when i liked the tea that tasted more like strawberry lemonade; but anyway, i began drinking tea some in Louisiana, but mainly in Georgia with Brett and his family. So, now, we are in Ukraine, and it seems all they drink is TEA! So, I guess the Georgia ice tea prepared me to come to another and drink one of their social drinks and be ok with it. And.... I kind of look forward to it.
We continue to ask for your prayers of guidance as we are here in this country; God is good everywhere and all the time. AMEN!