Trip to the Farm Show in Kiev

While I was flying back to Ukraine, Garry, Masha and most of the students (Karina volunteered to stay home and work, and poor Valera had to stay, he still can't ride the train, as his documents for his replacement internal passport ID are still being processed- there are hopes it will be done soon) were off on the Wednesday night overnight train to Kiev, where they went to the farm show and visited some other sites before returning on Thursday night's train. Thanks to Masha (Maria) I have lots of photos to show you.

When they arrived it was too early to go to the show, so they went downtown to see some famous landmarks near to where the Maidan demonstrations took place. It was wet and rainy... and cold.












Then they took the Metro (subway) to the the stop nearest the show

 

They walked a few blocks to the show in the snow! In fact, after the show they had to walk through rather deep snow to see the rest of their sites.

The Farm Show

They didn't just take photos on tractors, in fact, there was an educational scavenger hunt for the students with a list of  ten different things to find, like a brochure from a booth selling alfalfa.

The water museum

After the farm show they went to the Water Museum, which we have walked to and not been able to get into both of the last trips to the Farm Show. It was a long walk uphill, in the snow, and the guys took turns carrying Ira up flights of steps (she has cerebral palsy and has trouble with them) but this time they had made an appointment for a tour and so we have photos!

 I thought I turned this one before I loaded it, there is a photo of everyone in a bubble (all sideways) This is Nikolai.

Ira and Julia

 There was a snow ball fight and of course they ate at Mc Donald's at least once!