Time with my mom and dad around Kiev

As I’m writing this my parents are now on a flight from England back to Seattle….I’m still processing the fact that their two weeks with me is already over- when we’d all been anticipating it for so long!  My mom and dad arrived on May 8th and got to spend the first week following me around Kiev as I ran about like a mad woman trying to put the final touches on the spring play I was directing (see post above).  We did manage to see a few sights during the days and my parents very graciously sat through many last minute rehearsals and dress rehearsals. I even put them to work constructing curtains for the window and arch way on our set.  Reminded me of the days when my mom was the stage mom when I was in high school! 

It was such a blessing to have my parents see my day-to-day life and experience all the random things that I’m apart of here in Ukraine.  From riding on the metro and mini-buses to walking up my five flights of stairs and about 2 miles every day they saw and did it all!  I even had them be adventurous one day and I dropped them off at the zoo so they wouldn’t have to sit through a 2nd dress rehearsal. Kinda funny to tell my students I left my parents at the zoo! But they navigated their way to a grocery store and home to my apartment with no problems. Not too bad!