Crazy Friday

We had a crazy Friday. We enjoyed lunch and talking with Joshua and Maurie Hanauer who are visiting in Kyiv this week. We then had other talks at the UEC and finally, after our Friday church gathering, Kenneth and Victoria Kirby called and we talked for about two hours. In the midst of this, I somehow missed out on eating an evening meal and had a very light lunch. So around midnight, when we finally stopped chatting, I was on the prowl for supper. I enjoyed a bag of microwave popcorn (compliments of UEC president David Ralston) and went to a kiosk for whatever delicacies I might find there. Kiosk cuisine consists of something well below what a 7-11 might offer. Mostly, it's cigarettes, beer, Coke, cookies, candy bars, and chips. I had some Artek wafers, named after the very famous children's camp in Crimea. They were fabulous. I also bought a can of peanuts and, of course, a Diet Coke. That was supper.

Saturday we had a long meeting with several people, almost 4 hours. Lena came down with some kind of bizarre stomach problem. She woke me up and I thought she was having an appendicitis the pain was so intense. But most has cleared up and she is feeling some better.

I do want to praise the Lord that I found a place that could replace the nose cushion (or pillow as they call it in Russian) on my glasses. It has broken off and been glued back on numerous times. Finally, it gave up the ghost and I had been in mild pain for a couple of days with a little piece of metal grinding into my nose. Finally, somebody replaced it for $1.1o. I realize someday I will have to get new glasses. I am just waiting for my frames to come back in style so that I won't have to adjust to something new.

I am currently reading a memoir of one of C. S. Lewis's step-sons. Interesting stuff. With the Narnia movie coming out soon, many of us are pulling out the Chronicles and refreshing our memory. What a gift Lewis gave the world.