Old Village

On Sat. the Branch had an outing to this 17th-century Museum of folk Architecture and Life, it had houses, churches, schools, and many other buildings. Aug. 24, 1991 was there Independence Day from the U.S.S.R. But the Orange Revolution which finally put their President in, was by the voice of the people in Dec. of 2004. That's not too many years ago. So they are celebrating. This is what the Ukranian clothes looks like that they wear for celebrations. These buildings are over 100 years old.
I thought this was pretty with it's flowers and they had even cut the grass. Here in the city most of the grass is cut with weed eaters, even in the parks. I think I've seen one lawn mower. They have them for sell because we've seen them but no one can afford them. How do you like there thatched roofs?
Just another house but grass is starting to grow on this roof.
This is an old wooden church and we started to go into it and they were baptizing a little baby so we didn't go in. This is our group standing in front of Taras Shevchenko's statue, he is Ukraine's national hero and eternal poet. It was a fun day, Elder Williams got tired however, and our leader Tonya broke her sandal so she had to walk with that flipping around. After we got home I was talking to Jan and we heard a loud boom and it was thunder and lightening. Then Vicki called and by then we were waiting for the zone leaders (third from the left and clear at the right end) to come over. Our Branch President was in Lutsk (2 hour drive) and his mother who is also living in their house called and said that the roof had blown off from the storm so the 4 of us where going in a taxi to be with her (a 45 min. drive in a taxi) until he made the trip back home. He said she was in shock. We had to go around about 4 fallen trees on the road but on our return trip the National Guard had one removed. Some of the neighbors had put plastic on the floor of the attic (1/3 of one side of the roof had blown off) but we had a big rain storm towards morning so they're getting a group together and go tomorrow and help fix the roof.