Today we started our day early by going shopping for our weekly needs. We are getting pretty fast at getting what we need and we usually don’t get much as our needs are not great. We had two of our missionaries coming for dinner today so I needed a few things for that but we were able to fill our cart (to the “recommended” fill line) and get home in very short time.
Elder Morgenegg had been asked to open the office for the auditors meeting so he left not long after we got home and I finished putting things away and then started preparing our dinner. I had cooked the potatoes the night before because I was going to make potato salad. I cooked the eggs while we had our breakfast and so the potatoes and eggs were in the frig cooling. I first made the dough for the cornmeal crescent rolls I planned to make and got them rising. A funny aside. The last time I made bread it didn’t seem to rise well so I wondered if the yeast was still good. I put some yeast with a little sugar in a cup with some water and started preparing the rest. A few minutes later I looked a the yeast – well it is still good – it was raising all over the counter. So I had to take time to clean up that mess. Anyway, once the dough was rising. I made the Hershey’s Chocolate cake and got it into the two foil cake pans I have. I can only cook one at a time because I don’t want to worry about it overflowing in the oven so I put it in a little bit larger pan. It was good I did because it did overflow a little and the second one did as well. Anyway, while the cake cooked I started vacuuming our apartment and cleaning the bathroom and then mopping the kitchen floor. Once both cake layers were done the rolls were ready to be made up so I started rolling out the dough into rounds and then cutting and rolling the crescents. I had 32 rolls when I finished which were in four pans because we can only use small pans in our small oven. Then I started cooking them while I put my feet up for a while. I had also washed up all the dirty dishes I made as I cooked and also from our breakfast.
Before I finished cooking the rolls Elder Morgenegg came home and we decided to go on a short walk. Short because the missionaries were coming in about three hours and I still had to cook the pork steaks that I had bought and set the table and all.
So here are a few pictures from our walk. We went north on the river walkway to the end of the walkway. There was not a lot to see and the walkway is not nearly as nice as you get farther north but now we have gone there and know what there is to see.
This is the John the Baptist Chapel that is not far from our apartment and maybe you remember it from an earlier walk. It is a lovely little chapel.
What we didn’t notice before is the little like pier out behind the Chapel.
You can see the cross and there is a pool with steps going down into it – a baptismal font? We didn’t know that the Orthodox church believed in baptism by immersion. Interesting.
I don’t know if you can see the gulls but they seem to be feeding or riding the waves. Not sure but there were many of them there.
An interesting sculpture of a giraffe.
All along the walkway there are people with fishing poles in the water. We saw one man pull out a fish. I suspect they must eat the fish but I don’t know. I certainly would not eat anything that was caught in the Dnepr River. It may look inviting from a distance but up close it is as bad as the Hudson River – maybe even worse considering what is up river.
This is a map of the city from the walkway and includes all the walkway. It was interesting to look at.
From a distance this looks like a wonderful building but as we got nearer it is obviously vacant and falling apart. Very sad because at one time it was probably a very nice building.
The abandoned building and a building attached to it.
After we reached the end of the walkway we decided to cross the street and walk home on the other side. This is a very busy four lane road but there are cross walks with lights so we didn’t have to wait long to cross over. The nice thing is on the other side it was quite sunny as we walked home it was mostly shady and very breezy which felt very good.
When I was doing some research for President Sullivan I learned about the Alfred Nobel University. I knew it was near our apartment and here it is. It is quite a young university and very prestigious.
The grounds of the University
Elder Morgenegg and the very busy road we had to cross.
More of the University.
This very interesting statue is on the grounds of the university. It appears to be a large hand holding the world with a figure coming down to it Probably more but we were not very close.
I love the name of this little cafe – Eatme Kafe. The pictures of the inside look so cute as well. Mostly these places are just coffee clubs but this one seems to have other things as well.
Happy Birthday Hot Wheels. Who knew I would see this sign on a street in Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine. The window displays were darling as well but after I took on picture I got some funny looks so stopped after one.
Here is the one I took – I was careful not to get any people in it. Gotta love legos – world wide.
On the way home we noticed the bowling alley near us seems to be getting a make over. The stairs are all ripped up and it is obviously closed. Glad we already got a chance to take some pictures here earlier when they had the bowling balls on chains that you could bump.
After we got home I took a short rest and then started cooking the pork steaks. I dredged them in flour, then in an egg/milk/mayonnaise mixture, and finally in my seasoned breadcrumbs (you cannot buy already made breadcrumbs as far as I can see but I have a food processor or sorts so I made my own). Then I browned them in a pan and then put them in a baking dish and into the oven to complete the cooking. They turned out pretty good.
I think the missionaries we had over enjoyed the meal. One of the missionaries will be going home in August. He is from Snowflake Arizona. The other is from L’viv Ukraine and will be leaving on July 4th. He is what we call a “visa waiter” and his visa has come. He will go the Provo MTC and then off the Australia. He is an energetic young man with very good English skills and a few other languages as well. We had a good time visiting with them as we ate. They lit up when the cake came out as well. Who doesn’t love chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and ice cream?
Afterwards Elder Morgenegg walked them part way back to find the tram stop so they could get to the Branch building for an activity they are having there.
Now we need to do out laundry (we didn’t want laundry hanging all over with company coming) and do the dishes. Most were done before so it is not too bad. They I think I will collapse and call it a day. A good day but another busy one.