{"id":2528,"date":"2018-05-12T06:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2018-05-12T09:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:52:02","slug":"5-may-2018-happy-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"5 May 2018 – Happy Cinco de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, we had enchiladas the week before and finished them up on Friday night so no Mexican food for us today.\u00a0 We did however go on another walk and although I am posting this almost a week later it will give you some more flavor of what life is like here in DnepropetrovsFirst, a little history.\u00a0 Elder Morgenegg and I celebrated our 20th anniversary with a trip to San Francisco and we included a trip down the Monterrey coast to San Jose.\u00a0 There one of the things we saw was the Winchester House.\u00a0 You may know the name Winchester as associated with rifle and guns but after he died his widow moved to San Jose and built a very interesting and very strange house.\u00a0 It was there for the first time I saw a door that went nowhere.\u00a0 It was an outside door and you would expect it would have a balcony or stairs outside but in this case there was nothing.\u00a0 I believe it was on the second floor but it may have been higher.\u00a0 Here is a picture I found on line.\u00a0 I have wonderful pictures in storage but no access to them now.<\/p>\n

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Winchester House door to nowhere<\/p><\/div>\n

Up the hill we walk every day there is a building with a similar door to nowhere.\u00a0 They have recently dug up the ground beneath the door and poured concrete.\u00a0 We are interested to see what happens next – assuming it is completed within the next five and a half months – you never know how long things will take here.<\/p>\n

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Door to nowhere<\/p><\/div>\n

Like last year the tire planters here are now blooming.\u00a0 What an ingenious way to use old tires!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tire planters outside our apartment.<\/p><\/div>\n

Next to our apartment building is a very nice nursery\/kindergarten school.\u00a0 There is an entrance from our parking into the school.\u00a0 We often say we could cut some time and walking off our route if we could just walk through the school – but we never do.\u00a0 Here is a picture of this back entrance.<\/p>\n

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Back entrance into school.<\/p><\/div>\n

So last Saturday we took a walk to see a mall that Elder Morgenegg has been wanting to see.\u00a0 It is called the Grand Plaza Mall and is next to the Dnepropetrovsk Grand Hotel.\u00a0 Here is picture of the outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Grand Plaza Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

Inside it is even more exclusive than the mall where Le Silpo (the upscale grocery store is.\u00a0 Here are some pictures of the inside.<\/p>\n

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Trampolines in the playland at the Grand Plaza Mall<\/p><\/div>\n

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More of the playland<\/p><\/div>\n

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The second floor of the Grand Plaza Mall<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are three levels in the mall. In the basement is a great bookstore. Although all the titles are in Russian it was fun to look and to see familiar looking covers.<\/p><\/div>\n

After leaving the Mall we took the tram down to the Renok where I wanted to see if they had currants yet.\u00a0 We walked on the opposite side of the street from the Renok because it was a very warm day and that side was shady and so it was cooler.\u00a0 We found an interesting alley to walk in.\u00a0 It ended but it was interesting to see.<\/p>\n

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Nice looking alleyway.<\/p><\/div>\n

We also saw a renok that had bedding plants and vegetables.\u00a0 Lots of bedding plants and it was very busy with people buying vegetables, flowers and herbs.\u00a0 Wish we had a place to plant something maybe we could try them out but alas we do not.\u00a0 Sister Sullivan told me that she tried to grow tomatoes on the balcony at the office her first year here but it was not successful.\u00a0 Perhaps someone with a green thumb would be able to as it seems a great place to grow things.<\/p>\n

I took some pictures of the ATB, Eva (kind of like a Walgreens without the pharmacy), Central Renok, and the Priozerny Mall before we crossed the street to go to the Mall.<\/p>\n

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Priozerny Mall and the Central Renok<\/p><\/div>\n

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Center Renok and Eva<\/p><\/div>\n

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ATB – a grocery store that is kind of a low end cheaper store – it is where you can buy a packaged ice cream cone (with ice cream) for about 3 grivne about 10 cents<\/p><\/div>\n

Then we went to another mall, the\u00a0Priozerny Mall.\u00a0 It is five stories high and has a gym on the top floor, a bowling alley and a butterfly museum on the forth floor, a children’s party and play land on the third floor and shopping on the other floors including a grocery store on the first floor.\u00a0 It was interesting to see it all.\u00a0 There is an escalator that goes up (but not down) as well as stairs.\u00a0 We saw an elevator and used that but it only goes all the way to the first floor and doesn’t stop in between – there are buttons but it doesn’t stop.\u00a0 Here are some pictures I took.<\/p>\n

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Bowling alley through the glass windows<\/p><\/div>\n

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Playland<\/p><\/div>\n

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More of Playland<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is harder to see as all my pictures were through the glass – if you can see the boy – he is on a zip line. There are trampolines in the back as well.<\/p><\/div>\n

After the mall we went to the Renok and I bought a bag of red currants.\u00a0 We also got two big boxes of strawberries and a piece of pumpkin.\u00a0 I froze the currants.\u00a0 We finished the strawberries with our breakfast this morning.\u00a0 I cooked the pumpkin (in my crockpot – who knew you could do that.\u00a0 Just put it in and walk away and the next day it was so easy to get off the skin) which I used to make pumpkin apple bread.<\/p>\n

We had a good day and it was nice to get out and see some new things in places we had been before but had not stopped to look.<\/p>\n

It is good to get to see so much of the wonderful city we live in.\u00a0 There is much more to see – more than we will see I am certain.\u00a0 What a great blessing to have time to do all we have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we had enchiladas the week before and finished them up on Friday night so no Mexican food for us today.\u00a0 We did however go on another walk and although I am posting this almost a week later it will give you some more flavor of what life is like here in DnepropetrovsFirst, a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-intro","category-our-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}