Tuesday, June 16, 2009

10 June 2009 Ukraine

I got up with intentions of leaving by noon. I needed to load Matilda with the Ukraine and Russian maps which Peter helped me with. No luck. Many tries later and still no success. It was about 10:30 a.m. and still having no success. It wasn’t long before Yuri, his daughters and Natalie were standing at my door. I’m very unhappy with my situation. Yuri called up a friend who thought he could help. I wasn’t long before Mycola shows up. He checks out Matilda and decided he can work better on his computer at home. So off we go, the whole entourage. Yuri and Renata split off and Edita, Natalie and I continued on to Mycola’s home. Mycola worked very hard with Matilda but she wouldn’t budge. We needed the image files and can’t seem to load them. I know the answer to this is to simply accept I don’t what the missing link is. Mycola and his wife’s mother put on a traditional Ukraine dinner for all of us. It was very good and all home grown in the garden. The cheese was from their cow. During dinner Natalie interpreted between Mycola’s family, who wanted to know more about the U.S. Mycola had to drive back to the city to get his wife so we all left. On the way back Mycola gave me a CD of Ukraine folk music. When we got to the hotel we exchanged e-mail address etc. We shook hands and I’m telling you Mycola has some really large hands. I bet they are at least 1 inch-plus wider than mine. Anyway, he left all smiles. On the way back Yuri pulled a wheelie right in front of the police. He was pulled over and whether he got a fined or not, I don’t know. He was caught in the act and couldn’t deny it. He was in the right place at the wrong time. I told him he drives his motorcycle like a young man. He kind of smiled. Anyway, my plans are to leave tomorrow and again Yuri and his entourage will arrive at 11:00 a.m. to guide me out of town. They all left. I went back upstairs and attempted to reload the maps with no luck. I then e-mailed Peter requesting assistance.

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