Saturday July 17

On Saturday morning we went to to the new mother's dorm. When girls at the Teen Dorm get pregnant, they are immediately kicked out, and this dorm was started for the girls once they have their babies, if they decide to keep them. Some of the dad's also live here. We did sort of a service for the parents, then we had clothes for them to go though and choose which ones they wanted. Then we walked through the rooms and prayed over the moms, dads, and kids. The youngest child there right now is 2. One of their biggest needs right is bigger size diapers and pull-ups. After lunch had the rest of the afternoon off to pack and get ready to leave. Then after supper, we went to the train station, and got on our overnight train. We were split up into two different cars. And the other car, not the one I was in, just got back from Russia, and the air conditioning was broken. :( It doesn't sound like that was very pleasant.

One of the Mama's and some of the kids at the dorm

Olivia and her new friend

Our fridge at the apartment - notice the top shelf?? It's stuffed full of chocolate,  Brooke's chocolate. The poor lady at the store. She didn't speak English so we were pointing out what we wanted, such as all of Brooke's chocolate, and saying da (yes) and nyet (no) trying to get the message across what we wanted. It was actually quite funny. :)

Loading up our luggage to go to the train station

Alina came to see us off at the train station. This picture was taken out the train window.

The station

A train pulling in

Sorry this is a bad picture, but I had to take a picture of it. It's kind of hard to see, but the sign on the top is a no smoking sign!! That's is the only one I saw while in Ukraine, besides on the plane! Ukraine has a long way to go to get to where America is at with their no smoking signs. If I could change anything the country, that is the one thing I would change about Ukraine, all the people smoking everywhere!