August 15

   This is the Mosteller Family blog. This is Derrick blogging today I am the only one awake. Today was very fun and tiring day apparently. Today we got up late because of jet lag, and then got ready for the day. We decided to go and explore while we waited for Natasha the translator to get here. We went to a church right around the corner. It was beautiful with the gold leafing and the gold domes on top. After that we walked to another church very similar to it but then I decided didn't want to pay to take the tour, so after that we went shopping for gifts to take back to the U.S. It was around 1:45 when we got back to the apartment. When Natasha came over we talked and then went to lunch. It was a little bit different then back home but it was good. Natasha asked if we wanted to go see any of the sites, David wanted to go see the Motherland statue. Natasha explained what all the monuments meant. It was awesome I went and toke a ton of pictures of tanks and airplanes. We got a really good view of Kiev up near the Mother Statue. We then went to another monument about the people starving. The is this statue of a little girl holding a grain stalk up to here chest as if it was priceless. Then we decided to come back and here we are.