Mary's trip to Kiev, Ukraine
Fall of 2003 - page 2
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This is one of the places around the city that wedding parties go to take pictures. They stand in front of the ship with the three Norwegian men that settled Kiev. They throw flowers back over their shoulders. If they land on top of the ship...it is good luck. I would hate to even guess how many wedding parties were waiting in line to throw their flowers and get pictures taken. |
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Mom felt right at home on Kreshadek when we spotted a bubble gum machine. This is the main street downtown that is closed to car traffic from Friday evening until Sunday evening. Thousands of people are there just walking, talking and selling their wares...even bubble gum! |
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St. Andrews church is in the background. This was taken on our "history" trip around the city. We were able to go in the chapel and see the architecture of a church 3 times as old as our country! |
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This was nearing the end of our trip...the Sunday afternoon before we flew out at 7:00 on Monday morning! We went to "The Little Mermaid" ballet in the theater behind us. Our tickets, center seats in the tenth row back from the orchestra pit, cost less than $2 each. The kids had balcony seats that were 75 cents a piece! |
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This is taken from Sammie's bedroom window the
last evening we were in Kiev. The city is filled with apartment buildings
like these seen here. These have been built in just the past couple
of years. From this window we could see all forms of traffic - the taxis,
the marshrutkas(the small yellow bus near the center of the picture),
the tramvi(the trolley trains to the left and behind the marshrutka)
and people walking. Mike and Judy's church is the attachment to the
front of the apartment building on the left side of the picture with
green lights in the windows. That room is the sanctuary. This is a very
interesting sight as it gets dark out and all you see is the lights
in all of the hundreds of apartments.
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last updated August 11, 2004