Glass Walls

Normally, I'm the observant one in the family. Sometimes too observant. Yesterday while wandering out of an underground shopping mall towards the metro I turned my head ever so slightly to consider the Coffee & Tea Kiosk to my right with a lovely display of tea pots. (ours is currently handle-less). In my interest in the tea pots, I failed to adequately notice that the "hallway" immediately to the left was the perfectly cleaned, unadorned glass walls of the Apple store. I turned too soon and ran SPLAT into the glass wall.

Momentarily stunned, my eyes focused enough to see the Apple Guy looking up from his computer and staring at me. The two chattering girls behind me had fallen into muffle silence, though that was very soon replaced by rollicking laughter. I, on the other hand, stumbled away from the wall and tried to not limp my way down the real passageway to the metro. I have a bruise on my leg and my eyebrow bone is sore to the touch, and a big imprint of my face was left on the glass. Fortunately, Kiev is a big city, I don't have an Apple, and am not likely to be there, or recognized by any of the witnesses, anytime soon.

A lazy post after a long delay

It seems like I haven't gotten back into the once a week routine yet of posting since getting back from the states. But - this time I have an excuse :-) We had some good friends of mine from Linfield come for a 10 day visit and I was busy showing them about the contry and the city. If you want a fresh perspective on Ukraine, and also a view of what we did - check out their posts for the begining of September.
Aside from that - it is the same old same old. Group, People, Groceries, House cleaning, Church and the like. Alister did have a brief change of pace as he went to Wales to start his ThM Hooray - things in that department are finally started and underway. One bump in the road is that they changed the due date for the course work (moved it up) and he'll also be teaching a course here in Ukraine mid October and then grading papers - so it'll make it a bit hectic for Alister this fall, but we need a little bit of a challenge.
The weather is starting to turn nippy here and I'll soon need to stock up on apples to make apple sauce and Mince. I promised Alister I would do a Christmas pudding this year so I'll need to make enough for pies and a small pudding.