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.
This is a little meat store down in the Metro and sometimes there are about ten to twenty people lined up to buy meat.
There are little stores down in the Metro like this one.
There is a little baboska on both sides of the entrance of the Metro to sell some of the things they grow during the year to earn a little money.
You can see the big red M on the intrance to the Metro.
The green ATM on the wall is where we normally get our money. You can see in front of the steps that the pathway is not complete yet but the new path is a great addition. We won't have to worry about stumbling on the uneven walkway when it is finished.
I have just come through the tunnel and I'm headed toward the Metro. The brick walk is new and is a lot better to walk on than the last path.
We walk through this tunnel that is actually an opening they put through some of their buildings to allow people to walk through as their buildings are so long it would make it hard for people to walk all the way around them to get someplace.
I guess they don't have an easy way to take out stumps so they will just decorate the stump so as to make the area look better.
On our way we see this fellow that parks this truck here daily and sales cabbage, patato's and onion's.
Packs of large dogs or small dogs are all over. This is a pack of small dogs we spotted here along the way.
Feeding birds on the way.
After the pile of cabbage we walk on down the street to the Metro. That is the underground subway.
This is a place that sales watermellons and the melons are pilled this high and higher and in the summer and in the fall is a pile of cabbage as this is and this pile is down about a third.
A meal with the missionaries that Sister Burr has prepared. This was a Mexican meal and was really good.
