Shopping and Eating

One of the great joys in traveling to a new culture is trying new foods. Our hotel provides breakfast and it has been fantastic. Sometimes we would not eat the foods offered for breakfast (potato salad, beet salad, pickled herring, dill pickles, coleslaw, pickled tomatoes). The items pictured above caused some amount of speculation. Meat or pastry? They were some type of chocolate and nut pastry, some thought they were made of dates. They were delicious and we enjoyed them with the Americanos and Cappuccinos we are in the habit of ordering with our breakfast. We also have appreciated the great service we have been receiving from our waitress Tanya.

Here is Shellie Shaw victoriously purchasing produce at the store. We have all had the opportunity to purchase some snacks at the local grocery story. The produce is particularly challenging as we must use a scale accurately to print out the price of the item. When the choices move from pictures to Ukrainian words we must rely on the kindness of strangers to help us manage to get the right information into the computerized scale.