A day of staying in

Kiev is getting more and more out of hand. The rebels are getting more and more restless everyday. It doesn't really come to our neighborhood, but we are experiencing more stores being closed and people are going from point A to point B without dawdling. We went back to the mall and did some shooting and got some more supplies. I finally bought shampoo. I couldn't take it anymore. (Something to remember the next time) The boys had fun playing with the shopping cart and I even got to use some French in the store (it was a french store) to find out what flavor of dumplings we were buying. 

Marcus took this photo of himself and I died seeing his arm coming through the parrot's head. So stupid! Gotta love Token! When we left the mall, we immediately went back in, as we saw a protest walking by and we did NOT want to get stuck in it. We regrouped back inside where it was safe, then when it was, we ducked out and went straight home to then talk about it one on one. Pretty surreal and while some would not want to be here, I'm really loving being somewhere so central in news right now. It makes our project seem even more urgent.

 Lainey and I made dinner for the family. We found out that our Air BnB place does not have gas in the stove so we can't make anything with pots or pans. We do however have a tea kettle so we can get boiling water, and a microwave, so we can continue to heat things up with that. We made potato vereniki and cherry for dessert by putting the frozen dumplings and then zapping them for 8 minutes. Jonathan made a salad with something that was apparently not a salad at all. Ben carved bread. We had a lot of fun taking a group photo together!

 We've been drinking a lot of vodka as there's nothing to do at night other than drink and watch tv. We actually downloaded the second season of friends and have been sitting together as a family to watch it.  I love these people and it's only day 5!