Happy Mother's Day!

Along the river Uzh in Uzhhorrod

Skyping with you guys this weekend was great. I'm sorry it was the middle of the night, but if I had tried to do it later in the afternoon the Internet club would have been super loud and busy and we probably wouldn't have been able to get a computer with a camera, So I think that was much better. 

Probably the highlight of the week was running into a couple of Americans on Saturday--that's pretty rare. They were a couple college girls here on a mission trip (only for 10 days.) They were nice and we talked for a little bit--I definitely miss just having normal conversations with Americans, for some reason it's just totally different. They invited us to a couple events they were holding, but, unfortunately, we were busy for all of them. However, they did tell us about the guy who sponsors these mission trips--he's an American that owns a cafe here, so we're gonna try to go find him and see if he can hook us up with some service opportunities. 

They also said they found a restaurant here that had good burgers. Good burgers are super hard to find here. I don't know why, they just don't know how to make good ground beef here. So we went and tried it today for lunch. It was a little expensive (by Ukrainian standards) but it was actually a pretty good burger. Probably the only burger I've had that actually tasted better than the McDonald's in Rivne. 

We spent part of the week preparing for this history event that's gonna be in a couple weeks. We went to the nicest hotel in town to try to get a venue for it. It's not too expensive, I think the only problem is that it might be a little bit too nice. I guess we're trying to get the mayor and governor there so nicer is probably gonna be better. Then we should be getting a press release soon from L'viv and we'll start taking that to news organizations and stuff like that. Should be fun. 

I don't know if I told you about this on the Skype call or not, but on Friday we had plans to have dinner at a member's house. So, we went there at 6 o'clock and when we called her to come open the door, she told us that she wasn't expecting us until Saturday. But, of course, they always have to be as hospitable as possible, so she invited us in, and somehow put together a whole meal for us while we waited in her living room for like 15 minutes. As we were leaving, she said "So, we'll see you tomorrow, right?" So, even though she already cooked a whole meal for us, we came back Saturday night and had another 3 course meal for her, just cause she had already bought the food and couldn't eat it by herself. She's super nice, she just sometimes slips into Russian and sometimes even Hungarian when she's talking to us. 

Sorry, I don't even have any pictures for you today. I hope everything is going great and Happy Mother's Day! I love you mom, and I miss you!

Alec