Our Everyday Life in Ukraine

On our way to the grocery store.  Sister Tanya Rudenko works in our laundry.

A babushka and her dog at her coffee stand.  She sells coffee, tea, candy bars, etc.  Cars pull over and purchase from her.  She takes the place of 7-11 or Maverick.

Someone making a purchase.

She is here everyday.  Even when it was bitter cold.

The closest grocery store to the temple.

Another view.

Looking back towards the Temple.  Right front is another Babushka selling drinks etc.

One of the underground tunnels we walk through to get to the store.  It's okay during the day, but we would hate to walk through it during the night.

These are the stairs we go down to the tunnel that takes us under the road.  We would go down these stairs every time we went to the grocery store or had to catch a bus.

This is the walkway under the road.  They would have these about every mile.  It was the only way you could cross busy roads.

This is the type of bus we usually rode on.

We didn't ever take these smaller buses.  Even though they were the right number, they didn't always go where you needed to go.

These city buses were the best.  We were always glad when we could get one of them.

Standing in front of the Golden Gate on our way to Stake Conference.  Left to right: Balls, Marcia, Sherwoods & Callisters.

Leda doing Marcia's hair.  It's nice that she will come to our apartment.

Off to do our grocery shopping.

Temple patrons headed to the temple.

Little children have it made in the winter!

The snow-packed walk from the bus stop to the temple.

Jay in his red fox shopka on the snow-packed walk.

This was a common sight in the winter.  Moms or Grandmothers pulling the little ones on these cute sleds.  They didn't remove snow from the side walks so it was the best way to take the children!