Day 12 - Yarik comes to visit - Thur Sept 29

So the morning started slow, and we needed some supplies, so we decided to go to the open air market. We wandered around checking things out. We thought Yarik would come later in the afternoon. So we were surprised when we got a call close to noon that he was at the McDonald's waiting for us to meet him. Darren walked back to the McDonald's to meet him. I needed to try to find a 220v hairdryer and hoped to find another plug converter to plug in our American chargers to the European outlets. We wandered and found lots of interesting things.
Some of our interesting finds were fresh fish flopping in some tanks, skinned rabbits splayed out on a table. Several whole chickens plucked and gutted setting out on a table...no ice or preservative method around. A duck head next to a body that was processed and ready to be cooked. We did not purchase any of these! We did get some fresh fruit and some fresh dill for our sandwiches. There were also lots of booths with everything from clothes, underwear and socks, suits, wedding dresses, fabric, small electronic appliances, books, toys, shoes, really just about anything you could buy and carry with you.
My purchases were a small bag for Darren to carry our cash and passports, a hairdryer, an outlet converter, some pairs and apples and dill. I also got a mug with the Sumy arch on it. (Sumy is the town we are staying in now.)
Back at the hotel, Ksenia stopped to have us pay for some food donations that the orphanage director requested and some gas money for her to cover the cost of driving around to do our documents.
We decided to try out the New York Pizza place. We got lucky and one of the waiters spoke some English, it wasn't quite perfect as we ended up with one pizza that was a double pepperoni instead of 2 pepperoni pizzas. Yarik had to get back to the school by 9, so we watched part of a movie before he had to get back.