I just read dad's weekly email. He really is a gifted writer. He described the week so well! I have little to add, but I'll try. Yes the Ukraine was fun. We did so much in so little time. We needed to change money. How much? We had no idea. We were told to not change money in the airport. So we paid our taxi by credit card. When we found a money changer on the street I changed $100.00. I received piles of Ukrainian currency.
Our host pulled out tokens when we rode the metro. He said each trip cost about $.16.
We bought dinner for 4 of us and it cost about $6.00. A pizza dinner with drinks. We shopped at a chocolate factory and bought big bags of candy and paid less than $20.00. We took five of us to dinner another evening and spent about $8.00. An Ukrainian feast. We went to a grocery store to try to spend more money. We spent about $20.00. We bought a few little souvenirs. All in all we had money leftover and gave it all to our taxi driver who took us to the airport. He smiled!
The metro was VERY deep. It is the world's deepest metro. You ride two sets of escalators to reach the bottom. The escalators really whizzed along. Two elderly people had to really hold on tight!
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