We got kicked out of our hotel at 12 on Tuesday, so we spent all day out on the Khreshatik - celebrating Ukraine's Independence with the rest of Kyiv. It was weird to think that I had also been there exactly two years before at the same celebration. The festivities were fun to watch. Bands played on the streets. A concert at Midan Nezalezhnosti went on all day. There were bike competitions. Break dancing. A bunch of fun stuff.
Mid-day we met up with Elder Obering and Elder Dorius and took them out to lunch at TGI Friday's. We spent quite a while with them (I felt bad at the end that we had kept them so long, but it was still great to spend more time with them!). They told us more about what's going on in the mission, and a little about what will be going down on Saturday at the Cultural Event.
In the evening, we still had about 5 hours until our train left for Odessa, so dad and I went to The Ghost Writer. That was a pretty good movie! The movie was all in Russian, of course, and I occassionally had to lean over and fill dad in on what was going on (he was a good sport - whenever he'd hear the rest of the crowd laughing, he'd join right in). When we left, we spent a lot of the trip to the train station talking about the movie, even though we had only gotten so much out of it. I definitely recommend watching it - I'll feel really bad if it's rated R - Ukrainians don't have ratings here, hehe...
The train ride was nice and bumpy as I had always remembered it, but it was fun to be back on one!
Now...welcome to Odessa!
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