OK, we've probably all heard of the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing. It's where you know someone whose connected to someone and on and on, and within 6 connections you get to Kevin Bacon. I don't know if that's true or not, still haven't received a Christmas card to date from KB and the family. However, seems to be true here! When we were in Kyiv we had dinner with another family here for adoption from Texas, that actually lives close to us but we had not yet met in person. They run into a friend, Andriy, who doesn't live in Kyiv but just happened to walk by the restaurant we're eating at! We get his information and ask if he knows anyone in Zhytomr, he gives us a contact (also named Andriy). Andriy here knows a guy named Tom, who knows a good friend of mine named Garrick that I've known since high school. It's a total God thing as we're 10,000 kilometers (yes we're turning metric here...) and we're making a bunch of friends :)
Anyway, Andriy (here) is a pastor so we got to go to church on Sunday. He and his wife invited us and gave us a lift across town to their church. The service was great, the choir was amazing (I'll post videos), two young ladies, Kristina and Anna translated for us, we actually had a great morning with them. After church, Andriy and Natasha (wife) took us to lunch to their place, they own a cafe in a mall that we didn't know existed that is a short walk from our apartment! The food was awesome (as always so far), and we had a great time talking with them. They have 3 adopted children.
Then Vitaly (our very cool driver) gave us a lift to the orphanage to spend some time with the kids. We hung out in their room (very cold outside) and played spoons some more, lots of laughs as we do our best to talk back and forth with our limited Ukranian. I manage to get most of the words right that I know, Bawook (spider) is still my favorite one. We brought oranges, bananas and candy with us. A few of Masha's friends joined us for spoons, Masha, Vera, Valla and Sveta (yes I'm sure I'm spelling phoenetically....). They were fun to hang out with and I think find us amusing. Anytime we're there, a pack of kids are sure to hang out and watch us, very curious of the Americans.
This is such a fun read along the way! I only hope you are Journaling it down in some way and can keep this as a hard copy someday! Have another good day everybody! The boys and I are going to venture out to Galena for a day trip to find some treasures at some of their cool little shops! :0) It's not quite like traveling to Florida or Ukraine on spring break, but at least we're leaving Freeport for a day! Take care!
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