My Adventures Where in the world is ….

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.

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.

Here I am at my desk. The missionary who took this picture insisted I put up Russian papers but I doubt you can see it. Yes, I do sometimes type in Russian, even in Ukrainian, but mostly I work in English.

Here is the beautiful foyer in our office – it is what you see when you step off the elevator (when it works which it has been a lot lately).

Down the short hall from my desk is our office kitchen – just a small kitchen which is fine to heat our lunch in. We also use it to prepare and serve lunches to those who come in for meetings, like the mission leaders conferences held once every six weeks. Then it is very inadequate but we make it work.

Here is Dad/Grandpa/Carl in his office. He has a large glass window where he can see what is happening in the rest of the office. I can see him from my desk. His office locks since he has the mission safe and many confidential files in his office.

This is the back hall where many of our mission supplies are stored. One of the big jobs I have yet to take on is the inventory – UGH! At the end of the hall is a door to the stairs that we have to use when the elevator is out. We pray for the elevator to work so we don’t have to climb all the stairs to our fifth floor office. By the way, the blue boxes are for mail for the missionaries and the open shelves are where we store all the boxes they get until I get them mailed out to the missionaries.

Here is a view of my desk from the hall outside the kitchen. We use the table to serve at the conferences that are held in our office or at other times when we have someone visiting.

Our friend the copy machine and my filing cabinet.

A view from the foyer down the hall to the president’s office. You can see Dad/Grandpa/Carl’s window. He is busy working. The other desk and computer are used by the mission executive secretary and the missionaries.

View out one of the foyer windows.

View out another one of the foyer windows.

View out another one of the foyer windows. Notice all the satellite receivers.

Here is a close up of the satellites dishes on the roof of what I believe is an apartment building. There is a pharmacy on the first floor – pharmacies are all over. There is another pharmacy right across the street from this one.

View out another one of the foyer windows. There is a small walkway and the president has a door out in his office.

View from my desk.

Another view from my desk.

Such a bright a beautiful sunrise.

Here is a view going up our hill. This is near the bottom and you cannot even see the top yet. If you could see closer you could see a traffic light – that is mostly the top of the hill. It is less of a hill from then on for the last block before we turn the corner to go to our office. This doesn’t really show how steep the hill is so I will try again another day to take a better picture.

As you turn the corner at the top of the hill there is this tree that is wrapped in colorful blankets. I wonder if it is wrapped year long or only in winter. We shall see in the spring if the wrapping comes off.

Here is a close up of the “loved” tree so you can see how it is wrapped up.