Fun and rainy day

A week ago we had such a fun and awesome day! Our generous donor, brother Kevin (who came to spend time with BOM for several weeks and came back home already)  wanted to bless our church and young people taking them to a folklore museum in Kiev. As more and more BOM supports the young adults we had to rent a bus. Now it is a problem for us with vehicle. But a good one! Our van is too small for so many souls. Ha ha! :)

 So, our bus and plus one more we went to Kiev, over 30 souls. Yay!

Pyrohiv (Ukrainian: Пирогі́в), also known as Pirogov (Russian: Пирого́в), originally a village south of Kiev, is a neighborhood in the southern outskirts of the Ukrainian capital city. It is now home to an outdoor Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine.

The territory of historic Pyrohiv now serves as the location of a 1.5-square-kilometre (370-acre) outdoor Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine. Founded in 1969, the museum contains over 300 pieces of folk architecture brought here from all parts of Ukraine and carefully reassembled.

 In the museum you can also find more than 40 000 items of household and traditional culture such as costumes, old textiles, embroidery, carpets, ceramics, metal handicrafts, woodwork and glass-ware as well as musical instruments, paintings and houseware.

Pyrohiv museum has been accorded the status of State Museum of Ukraine and is affiliated with the Institute of Arts, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.Info have been taken from Wikipedia

Isn't it gorgeous?

The museum is beautiful!

If you will be ever in Ukraine, I would highly recommend finding time and visit this museum!

Thanks to that you learn a lot and you will see the history of our beautiful country, if Ukraine is dear to your heart :)

The entrance cost $1.20 for today.

Trust me, you will not regret! :)

 This is quiet and awesome place.

And then at that day it started to rain! It was raining and then it stopped. And then raining again. And again.

 We were hiding in the houses. It was so fun!

Kids like little doves. So cute!

And it began a downpour!We were hiding from the rain everywhere it was possible. But our clothes have been sopping wet already. :)

We were all like wet chickens. :) Unfortunately we could not see much.We realized that the rain lasted for the whole day so we decided to go home.

 Even was heavy rain, we returned home soaking wet, walking barefoot through the puddles as the shoes have been wet. We felt cold later as there was no change of clothes until we got home. But we all were so happy! Many young people have been the first time in Kiev or somewhere outside the trade school. It was such awesome! And so fun rainy day!All were satisfied and had fun with such a huge crowd!

A dear our friend and Maidan in Kiev

Surprise! We have a visitor from US in Ukraine! On Tuesday we met in airport our dear and old friend Andrew, who visited our country last summer. It is such a wonderful blessing to meet old friends!He will spend 6 weeks helping BOM. Yay! We are so excited!!!!

At the entrance to different cities, not only Kiev. You can see the activists, who are guarding entrance to the city, together with the police and guns in their hands. So, we felt safety :)

After a delicious lunch at the Ukrainian cafe, we decided to go and see the Maidan in Kiev.

It was hard to see these many places knowing that so many people died there. This is the sad Ukrainian story. It is unbelievable what happened there! I still can not believe, watching it only on networks. You have to watch this all your own eyes.You still can smell the smoke there. It would take some hours to see everything.Many people, activists who were during Maidan say that there over 800 people died. Some say even more then 1500. No one knows exactly number. But not hundred or over hundred, it is exactly.

There are alot of wall bricks all over the Maidan

In many places a lot of flowers and many photos, who died there

The museum Maidan. An one activist invited us and wanted to show us their shelter or housing they built. Many activists still live there, and will live till president elections in May 25.Please, pray for the election.Thanks.

It's their equipment. Where is Internet, computers, printer and so many different stuff.

Their kitchen

Our guys :)

 On the Independence square are a lot of different Ukrainian national symbols, what happened on the Maidan. And for those, who support Ukraine. Cups with photos Maidan, caps, flags, wreaths for girls, ribbons, fridge magnets, calendars and many other

The building, which burned down a lot of people. Terribly.

Lots of flowers and photos of dead people.

Different things from Maidan

Molotov cocktails.

Almost the whole Maidan

T-shirts with different slogans in support of Ukraine and Crimea. The man is Ukrainian Cossack.

I loaded more photos on BOM`s Facebook. If you would like, you can follow to this link to see more.

Please, pray for Ukraine. Especially in these heavy days, what is going on south and east of Ukraine. Our hearts absolutely are broken and heavy. We need mercy of the Lord Jesus.Ukraine needs God.Thank you very much!!!