After a nights ride on the train we arrived in Crimea. Notice the red star on top of the tower.
Another picture of the train station.
This is why we are here. Another Career Workshop. We had a couple of older people come because their grandchildren wouldn't come and they wanted to explain the program to them to help them get a job. It is hard changing your life from a society that doen't demand that you work to one that does.
I wonder who engineered this sidewalk.
Very cute little children. We made their day by giving them a little candy.
Waiting for the missionaries to take us to our appartment in a town in Crimea.
Sister Burr likes Pomegranate. These were huge.
This is a map of the ancient Greek ruins. The whole city was destroyed.
The ruins you are looking at in these pictures is an ancient Greek city that was distroyed so fast that they found bones of a woman in the street up about 200 feet from the bottom of the picture.
They restored the monastery that is behind Sister Burr just a few years ago.
More ruins.
The only colosseum in Ukraine is this one in the ruins.
These are some of the solid steel doors that are under the mountain where the submarine base is.
This is where they dry docked submarines during the second world war to repair them. This is under a mountian that would be protected from an atomic bomb.
This is a lake hidden in the mountains where they docked the submarines.
Close to the enterence into the mountain where they repaired submarines.
The have large vinyards here.
The castle on the edge of a cliff.
I know it always looks like we are on vacation. Well maybe we are as we love being here and in doing our job we travel all over the place and see views like this all the time.
A really big tree in town.
Looks like a tree right out of Harry Potter.
Fun feeding the birds.
This is the building where the treaty to end World War II was signed.
This is the table where the treaty was signed to end World War II.
This is the inner court of the building.
As you know by our coats it is cold outside but this special rose that was shipped in from France is blooming.
This is where treaty talks took place.
This is the Russian news paper called Provda, Provda means truth in Russian, that annoounced the signing of the treaty.
In this room and on that chair, which is in the same building, Stalin and Roosevelt had secret talks.
This is the Russian paper called provda which means truth. It is the paper that talked about the treaty to end World War II.
This is what we went to Crimea for. This is a Career Workshop which we enjoy doing.
The one standing on the left by Elder Burr is the Branch Preside. Kneeling on the left was our driver while in Crimea he is a councilor to the mission president and next to him is our translator.
This is a class we had in the evening on food storage and we also taught nutrition and 72 hour kits.
This is the gate to our house.
The bus just let us off and here comes one of those trollybooses. We are across the street from our house.
Here comes the bus we ride to the house.
The blue bus is called a trollyboos. We ride it here to the corner sometimes.
This is on the same corner where we buy our vegetables. It is part of what we call the Renok. We can buy quit a few things in this area. It is about a two acre area of stores. A lot of the stores have the same things.
This is the open air store where we buy our fruits and vegetables. There are about 12 different stores selling the same stuff. But we look around as on different days different ones will have better produce.
The store must be down the road a ways.
He is caring a flat of bread to a store.
Sister Burr is trying to sneek a picture of the bread delivery man. The bread is not in bags the loaves are just in the open.
We are standing on the corner waiting for our martashuka (bus) to take us to our chasny dome (our house). This is about a mile from our home. Everyone is watching intently for the bus. It was cold that day.
The ghost is Sergey our translator and a couple of more party goers.
This is Archeom. He was the last Branch President of center branch and is a great guy.
Oh no is this freaky Holloween. I'm confused. We didn't know what else to do for a Halloween costume so we went as each other. I hope this doesn't get out. Boy, are we ever out of character.
More Holloween party goers. The one on the right is the youth leader and has been so for a long time.
We are at the church at a Holloween party and Anna is the first one we run on to and she is an angel and also teaches us Russian, which we are having a hard time learning, and she also does some translating for us.
