Summer 2012 Activities

This is the Holodomor (death by hunger) memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine honoring the millions of Ukrainian's killed in Stalin's man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 - 1933. This statue is a memorial to the many children that were starved.

Holodomor Memorial.

Another view of the memorial.  These steps lead to the museum which was very sad!

The end of June we took a bus tour of Kyiv with the Hendricks and the Blacks.

We had a visit from Sister Bodryashova and Brother Chistokov and their daughter Olga and her husband Andre, and daughters Varvara and Ivana.

Jay walking home from the temple.  He did this 5 times a week for eighteen months.

Marcia on her way from the temple to their apartment in the patron house.  It was a short walk!

We took Victor Merkelov to TGIF to celebrate his 31st birthday.

We visited St. Andrews Cathedral again.  This is looking down at the street below.

Jay standing on the balcony of the Cathedral.

Marcia with St. Andrews Cathedral in the background.

One of the little ponies you see in the parks in Kyiv for children to ride.  Jay was too big!

  Jay and Marcia at Prince Vladimeers statue.

We visited the Chernobyl Museum with Karlene and Gary Dance.

A summer photo of the Temple.  There is a saying that a path of sunflowers leads to freedom.

In May we went to take a boat ride on the Dnipro (Dneiper) River  and after sitting on the boat for about an hour they told us there weren't enough people aboard to take the ride.  We went again in early August and this time we were successful.  The Hendricks and the Vasil'evs went also.  This picture and the next few are taken from the boat.

You see lots of graffiti in Kyiv.

On August 18, 2012 we visited Krushchev's summer home in Kyiv.  Behind Jay is the home.  Apparently a lot of political meetings were held here.  It is now the property of a hospital where many women here have their babies.  We saw a lot of pregnant gals walking around.  We kind of think a lot of them are unwed Mothers that stay here until their babies are born.

An archway leading down to several ponds on the property.  As we visited this area we asked people we met about Krushchev and they acted like they had never heard of him.