When we pay our rent we pay with cash. We thought you might like to see what the wad looks like. It is 1500 griven – which is actually just $550 in US dollars – so it is not that much.
It looks like more than it actually is. It is all in 200 and 100 griven bills.
Here you can see the stack all those griven make. It took three times at the ATM to get it all out. They limit how much you can take out at one time.
It is hard to see but we woke to a new layer of snow and it is so beautiful. When we left our apartment there were several inches of snow to get through and you would thing that would be easy but it was hard work to walk through it all. In some places there was a path in others it was piled up and you just had to try and get through. Not much there but it took a lot of energy to walk through it. Thankfully, we could take the tram up the hill but we had to walk around the bottom of the hill to get to the tram, so we walked just as far just not up the hill. It was a quite walk as not many were out yet. New fallen snow is the best!
The snow is built up on our air conditioner our our balcon window.
It is kind of dark but maybe you can see the road that has new snow and no one has driven on it yet. It is early morning so it is pretty dark outside.
Today was the day after what was to be a big storm. It was actually a big storm – just not so much here. We probably only got about three or four inches of snow and then some icy stuff on top of that – so I went out to put the garbage out and slipped several times – it is icy. Despite that we decided to take a walk and if it wasn’t too icy to go across the main road and walk along the river. Well, it was icy but we went anyway and so we walked to the light and crossed the road (a four lane busy road) and there is a very nice walk way near the river. They had plowed the walkway – sort of but we didn’t go down to the river as you would have to walk through the snow to do that. We walked a ways one direction and then turned to walk the other way. It was blustery and very cold so after a while we decided we had had enough and we walked back to the cross walk, stopped at the market for some milk and eggs and went home.
It was nice to get out. Here are some pictures from our walk.
This building is across the way from our apartment and we noticed today there are trees on the roof. Interesting.
Here is a close up of the trees on top.
As we started to walk near the river we noticed a lot of birds flying in the air. Not sure if this shows them well but there were so many it was eerie.
Here is the bridge that is just north of where we live. There are actually three bridges across the river here in Dnepr.
In the distance you can see the next bridge south on the river.
Although there are “normal” trash cans around there are also lots of trash bins like this around. One the street and here on the walkway. People just put there household trash and whatever in then. Interesting – although we have also seen a lot of trash on the road and along the roads.
Not far from us is a huge round building called the circus and it actually is a circus with animals and all. It is very noisy with music playing often.
I saw this in the distance on the walkway and it reminded my of the movie Big where Tom Hanks is searching for a certain game machine to make him young again. This is actually a boxing game but seemed to bring back that memory anyway.
I thought this looked like an interesting place. I think it is a restaurant – but I don’t know as I can’t read the sign – well I can read it but I have no idea what it says.
Here is Carl outside the interesting building.
There is a bowling alley down the street from where we live. The missionaries were going bowling on their last preparation day but I don’t know if it was here or not.
As predicted our first real snow came today. Although right now it is not snowing it is supposed to snow overnight and if the prediction is right we could have a total of 8 to 12 inches when all is done. The weather report says freezing rain for now – that is not a good thing as we all know.
So here are some pictures of our first real snow.
This is a view of the snow coming down shortly before we left for home today taken from our office window.
President Sullivan was in the office today working and told us he was closing the office at four. He also offered to drive us home and we happily accepted. As we went out he was clearing his car without gloves on. You can see some build up. Not as much as Utah and Idaho have seen but more than we have seen.
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