We went to the underground mall at Maidan Nezalezhnosti to have lunch at the food court. There was McDonald's, Mcfoxy, Chinese, sushi, a coffee shop, and a few other places. We ate Ukrainian food including, rice with pork, potatoes, shish-kabob, mushrooms with onions, kiev cutlet, and a Greek salad. It was actually Greek week at the restaurant. Afterward we went for a stroll around the mall. Some things at the mall seem overpriced. At the Adidas store were a pair of shoes same as Liliya bought for the trip except in a different color, were priced at about $90. We paid $30 on clearance in US, but even before they went on clearance they were only price around $60. At the book store we bought a couple Ukrainian children's books for my sister to have for her summer reading program at the library, Snow White and the Little Mermaid.
Meta Bank, not a real bank?
This weekend was a celebration of Kiev's birthday, so there seemed to be a lot of events scheduled around it that included music.
In the evening we attended a service at a Svyatosheno church, where Lilya went as a child. It was for me (lily) kind of surreal, as many places we've visited, they feel very familiar yet distant and new. Since it was Sunday we took it easy, did not even brought our "real" camera along, and after the church service went to the park.
Oh, and we watched some Ukrainian TV, for research purposes, a lot of american reality shows translated, such as Myth Busters. Several music channels that actually played music videos.
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