We had a great day sightseeing! We saw St. Andrew church, a famous Russian Orthodox church, as well as St. Sophia, St. Dimitri (these are also Russian Orthodox).
After some sightseeing, we exchanged our money, and spent some time shopping in a Ukrainian bazaar. The vendors were spread out along St. Andrew's Street, and we walked along, checking out what was for sale, and trying to find the "best deal" (something which every vendor assured us they had, especially for us Americans :-) ). There were alot of unusual gifts and items that were interesting to us "tourists".
Having completed our time shopping, we were brought to a Ukrainian style family restaurant - the food was set out cafeteria style, and we would choose what we wanted, and then pay after we had filled our tray. The food was very good, and we thoroughly enjoyed trying new things!
We finished our day with more sightseeing - we saw the statue of Mother Ukraine. She stands right over top of a military museum (which we did have time to go inside and see), which was preceded by carvings and murals of Ukrainian soldiers (which we got to see and take pictures of).
Overall, God gave us a nice day of seeing various parts of Ukraine, eating Ukrainian "family style" food, and shopping from the Ukrainian vendors.
(The two college age people pictured that are not part of our team are Ilya and Ledia - they are two translators that came along with us for our sightseeing expedition).
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