Day 7 - Sunday in Lugansk

A little restaurant and basketball court near our apartment

Another view from our 13th floor apartment

We must be living in the apartment district

Not many signs of recreation in Ukraine as we know it in the states but they do have bowling 

Lots of statues in both Kyiv and Lugansk - pretty sure this is Joseph Stalin but Alex isn't here to answer our many questions

A quiet day in Lugansk

It's not unusual to see expensive cars like this Alpha Romeo

They paint the base of their hardwood trees white - we're told it's to protect them from disease

Another statue - Vladimir Lenin?

A couple blocks from our apartment

Our apartment from the street

Entrance to our apartment building

We had our best night's sleep last night and woke up refreshed.   We hung out in the apartment until after lunch.  It's so nice to have time to read, write, and relax.  The calm before our little storm comes home with us, ha!  We took a long walk , took some pictures, and then came back to the apartment by way of the 13 flights of stairs which we had vowed we would climb the day before.  I cooked my first Ukrainian meal, ha, made up of the things in the grocery store that i recognize, namely 2 pkgs of noodles that look like oodles of noodles and sauted veggies, with our usual cucmber and tomatoe salad.  Very yummy!  We skyped twice with our boys, so good to see their precious faces.  They were so funny and made us laugh with thier stories of their week at school.  Alex is on the train back to us.  We look forward to seeing him in the morning and he says we will go to the notary first thing.   We are excited to have at least one apointment tomorrow.