Chocolate Croissant Heaven

Shane and I finished a huge huge project we have been working on non-stop for the past 6 weeks or so. BIG BIG deal. Yesterday was the day we had to upload a lot of it, and it was a little stressful because our internet was pretty slow. Shane found a cafe with WIFI (which is faster than our modem), and Shane sat at it - ordering Cafe Americanos - for literally 9 hours yesterday while files uploaded. I sat, locked in, at the apartment working on finishing up the last bits the whole time. I say locked in, because I was, in fact, literally locked in. You have to unlock the door w/ a key from the inside, and I realized too late, that once Shane had left and taken the keys that there was no way for me to get out. I guess if there had been a fire, I would have had to jump out a window - or try climbing down the grape vine. Fortunately there were no such catastrophes, and the files uploaded literally 10 minutes before the cafe closed at 11 pm last night. We finished up a couple of things this morning, and we are done.

We came back to the cafe for a celebratory late breakfast. Omelets, salad, and a super yummy chocolate croissant. We got one croissant, and now I am wishing we had gotten two - it was so yummy. My waistline  is probably happy we split it though, because I am sure that it had about 5,000 calories.

The Croissant was a total accident - a very happy accident - but accident. Shane was actually trying to order pancakes from a picture on the menu, and must have pointed at the words for "chocolate croissant" instead.

There is one girl here that speaks a tiny bit of English. They probably think we are crazy since Shane has practically lived here for the past couple of days. The cafe is really great, very nice interior, great music playing.... awesome lattes and coffee. We will definitely come here again. It is really close to the apartment too.

Also, bonus, I am downloading Top Chef on the WIFI right now. Score. Don't have to use up our modem AND get to see my show. :)

We need to clean today, our apartment is a wreck.

We are also going to figure out the logistics of Shane getting home. That is definitely happening. The plan right now is to switch his flight to Friday morning, Ukraine time... which would put him getting back to the States around 9 pm Bham time. Hopefully this will work out with the in-country flight schedule here, etc. We are going to be talking to our facilitator in a bit to coordinate everything.

Tomorrow afternoon is court.

Also, kind of fun... there is an American guy here, a friend of ours, named Brian. He helps out at camp, which is how I met him. He is originally from New York, and has lived in Ukraine for several years. He came here with the Peace Corps, and then after his stint stayed on and is now working at the English Language Institute here. He is engaged to a Ukrainian girl, Dasha, who works as an interpreter at camp as well. They are so sweet, and such a cute couple. He is working on a project at work, and has asked us to come and do a few voice recordings for the Institute. They need different dialects, etc... so that people learning English can hear it spoken different ways. I think we will be doing that Wednesday morning.