{"id":1673,"date":"2017-06-24T10:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T17:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2017-06-24T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T17:06:40","slug":"a-short-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"A short adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we started our day early by going shopping for our weekly needs.\u00a0 We are getting pretty fast at getting what we need and we usually don’t get much as our needs are not great.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I had cooked the potatoes the night before because I was going to make potato salad.\u00a0 I cooked the eggs while we had our breakfast and so the potatoes and eggs were in the frig cooling.\u00a0 I first made the dough for the cornmeal crescent rolls I planned to make and got them rising.\u00a0 A funny aside.\u00a0 The last time I made bread it didn’t seem to rise well so I wondered if the yeast was still good.\u00a0 I put some yeast with a little sugar in a cup with some water and started preparing the rest.\u00a0 A few minutes later I looked a the yeast – well it is still good – it was raising all over the counter.\u00a0 So I had to take time to clean up that mess.\u00a0 Anyway, once the dough was rising.\u00a0 I made the Hershey’s Chocolate cake and got it into the two foil cake pans I have.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It was good I did because it did overflow a little and the second one did as well.\u00a0 Anyway, while the cake cooked I started vacuuming our apartment and cleaning the bathroom and then mopping the kitchen floor.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I had 32 rolls when I finished which were in four pans because we can only use small pans in our small oven.\u00a0 Then I started cooking them while I put my feet up for a while.\u00a0 I had also washed up all the dirty dishes I made as I cooked and also from our breakfast.<\/p>\n

Before I finished cooking the rolls Elder Morgenegg came home and we decided to go on a short walk.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

So here are a few pictures from our walk.\u00a0 We went north on the river walkway to the end of the walkway.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\"This

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"What

What we didn’t notice before is the little like pier out behind the Chapel.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"You

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"An

An interesting sculpture of a giraffe.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"All

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

This is a map of the city from the walkway and includes all the walkway. It was interesting to look at.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"From

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The abandoned building and a building attached to it.<\/p><\/div>\n

After we reached the end of the walkway we decided to cross the street and walk home on the other side.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\"When

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The grounds of the University<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Elder

Elder Morgenegg and the very busy road we had to cross.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More

More of the University.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Happy

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.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Here

Here is the one I took – I was careful not to get any people in it. Gotta love legos – world wide.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the way home we noticed the bowling alley near us seems to be getting a make over.\u00a0 The stairs are all ripped up and it is obviously closed.\u00a0 Glad we already got a chance to take some pictures here earlier when they had the bowling balls on chains that you could bump.<\/p>\n

After we got home I took a short rest and then started cooking the pork steaks.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 Then I browned them in a pan and then put them in a baking dish and into the oven to complete the cooking.\u00a0 They turned out pretty good.<\/p>\n

I think the missionaries we had over enjoyed the meal.\u00a0 One of the missionaries will be going home in August.\u00a0 He is from Snowflake Arizona.\u00a0 The other is from L’viv Ukraine and will be leaving on July 4th.\u00a0 He is what we call a “visa waiter” and his visa has come.\u00a0 He will go the Provo MTC and then off the Australia.\u00a0 He is an energetic young man with very good English skills and a few other languages as well.\u00a0 We had a good time visiting with them as we ate.\u00a0 They lit up when the cake came out as well.\u00a0 Who doesn’t love chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and ice cream?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Now we need to do out laundry (we didn’t want laundry hanging all over with company coming) and do the dishes.\u00a0 Most were done before so it is not too bad.\u00a0 They I think I will collapse and call it a day.\u00a0 A good day but another busy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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