WE ARE HERE!

We Made it! We left Omaha and flew to Chicago. In Chicago, we boarded a huge 747 for Kiev. It held well over 500 people. The flight was 7 hours long and most people did not speak English. After four or five hours I started getting sore hips and legs. Jeff slept a bit but I didn't. The TV screen displayed what time it is and where we were on a map. The time was in German time so the night went by fast. We landed at midnight our time but it was 7 am. We had a layover for 2.5 hours, so we slept a bit. The bathrooms in this airport were so small. Two Toilets and a tiny sink. I waited in line for 20 minutes. We did sleep for an hour or so on the flight to Kiev. They fed us some sort of vegetable egg crepe and beer for breakfast. We took coke instead. It was 1 pm when we arrived in Kiev. We got off the plane and were met by a man who spoke very little English. He rushed us through passport check, luggage pick-up, and customs. We were a bit nervous because we couldn't understand this man at all. Luckily, he took us to Alexander (our facilitator who prefers to be called Sasha). We spent the rest of the day looking for an apartment to stay in. Hotels are very expensive here and not very nice, so people stay in apartments. We finally found one around 8 pm. Sasha apologized because he said it was a very simple place. It isn't bad, kind of like something college kids would live it. It has hot water and doesn't smell so it's fine with me. It is very close to Independence square.
We ate at TGIF's, strange we had to go to Kiev to eat there. Neither of us had been to one before. Someone tell Larry there is Heinz ketchup here.