Our last full day in the USA for a while. I did not have to preach today or teach a class. There was a fill-in preacher from New Zealand. Long story. We also went to three nursing homes today to visit relatives, and we took Lena up into the "knobs" as it is often called--the place my mom grew up. There is a pre-Civil War Church of Christ there and all sorts of people, rather Appalachian. It was quite different from what I remember. We visited with an elderly couple tonight after church and made our last dash to American capitalism. Tomorrow, my parents are taking us to a buffet for lunch before we get on the plane. More consumption. Nice.

See you on the other side. Pardon my falling out of email contact with some of you. Hopefully we will make up for that once life slows down when we get back to Kyiv :)