Day 3. I knew today was going to be a busy day. Of course it started off with breakfast at mama luba's. This time she served us these crepes with cheese filling. The jam on the side was made from her hand picking the cherries and berries on her yard. Delicious. The juice she serves us every meal is also hand picked from her yard. Once that was over it was time to head to the church to meet up with up with the 40+ kids we were taking to the aqua park. Once we got there we were split into small groups. These small groups were to be accountable to each other. I was placed to look after 3 boys. Atriom, the oldest of the three. He was born in Moscow, Russia but then moved to Ukraine as a young boy. Bagnad, known as a trouble maker but he was quite well-behaved. And his best friend, Dennis. Dennis is the smallest of the bunch and the most shy. Bagnads and Dennis friendship is a funny one. We got into the bus and made sure all the children were counted for before heading out into our 2 hour drive into the outskirt of Kiev.
Ukraines landscape is flat. A sea of plain flat fields on the right and a sea f plain flat fields on the left. Acres and miles of corn fields, sunflower fields, and potatoe fields on both sides. With the occasional small village every few miles.
I could not understand any of the road signs at all
Alina Shakuta sat next to me on the bus ride to Kiev. She explained to me the significance and symbolism of the Ukranian flag. Ukraine's postmark scenery is open wheat fields sitting under clear blue skies. Hence, the blue and yellow on the flag. She asked about my family, I showed her pictures of my mom, sisters, little cousin Leilani and Kimberly. She said they were all very pretty and that I was fortunate to be surrounded by beautiful girls. On the bus she introduced me to her 4 daughters. Little girls that all looked like twins haha the second youngest, Enya, has two big buck tooth in the front and big ears. She is always smiling.
Once we've arrived at the Aqua park we ate our packed snacks on the bus because food inside the park is expensive. We then waited in line to get in.
We had a blast! We must've got on all the slides 100 times. Relaxed on the massage pool. Cooked ourselves in the sauna. Played Marco polo on the wave pool and that was all in the first hour. Only to repeat again every hour for the next 5 hours. We were exhausted by the end of the day. Rode back were Vanya, the worship leader and I hanged and talked about our favorite music styles when we got back to church.
Went back home for dinner around 9:30p rested to get ready for the next day.
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