pics

I have finally found a nice cafe that has good tea and free wifi--a rarity in Kiev! I'm taking this opportunity to post a few of my favorite pictures from this weekend.

How's this for a wedding dress? This bride was really strutting her stuff on Saturday.

Monastery of the caves. It's kind of creepy: you and a trillion pilgrims grab a candle and trundle down into caves to venerate mummified monks. It was so packed down there that I was afraid someone was going to knick me with a candle and set me on fire. I'm a hopeless Protestant, I guess.

Random cossack (they're everywhere) in Podol, the old artisan neighborhood.

Looking toward St. Sophia's Cathedral, downtown Kiev.