Day 13 - Notarizing Yarik's documents Friday - Sept.30

It was Friday and we were planning to get our documents notarized for Yarik. We were not sure what time Ksenia was planning to pick us up, so we did not do much that morning. We went to get some more food and ate some breakfast/lunch. We thought that Yarik would be done close to noon, so we wanted to stay close to McDonald's. We also needed some cash exchanged so we went to look for a bank. We found one bank and they turned us away since we did not have a Ukrainian passport, we tried another bank and they would not exchange money either. Darren called Nastia to make sure there was no new law that we did not know about that would keep us from getting money changed. She did not know why they turned us away, so we figured we would try one more bank. This time I went in alone and gave her my passport and the cash. She handed the passport back and gave me the Ukrainian money and a receipt. Next Tonya and Tressa went in and exchanged their money and finally Darren went and got some more for us. We figured we better get what we could while we had the chance.
After we exchanged money we walked around and explored a bit, we had heard from Ksenia and she was to meet Darren and I at the hotel at 1:30. On one street we saw bride after bride with their groom and wedding party. As we got closer to the church there was a bride and groom feeding pigeons and taking photos. We took a few photos as well. The church bell tower also rang out a beautiful song. I got a short video of the music. Then we walked back to the hotel to meet Ksenia. She picked us up and we went to the notary. We had two pages to sign and a log book. It took about 15 minutes. On the way to the notary, Yarik called and was waiting for us at McDonald's. Ksenia let him know we would be back soon. We went back to McDonald's and found Yarik. Then we left Ksenia and the three of us went back to the hotel. We met up with Tonia and Tressa to hang out and then soon go to find a place to eat out. We decided to try out the New York pizza, even though there was no English menu. There was one waiter that did know a little English. All in all, we did not do too bad. We had one mishap where Tonia was trying to ask for 2 peperoni pizzas and instead they got one pizza with double peperoni. The rest of us pretty much got what we wanted. After we were done eating, V was getting restless and playing with his soda bottle. He knocked a glass over and it broke. Later the waiter that spoke a little English came to tell us we owed 5 grivna for the broken glass. (It is 8 grivna for one dollar, so not too much money.)
Yarik was able to stay at the hotel with us, so we all watched "Nim's Island" together. Then got to bed late. With Yarik staying in our room it was pretty crowded, so we were hoping to get a bigger room the next day.