St, Sophia Museum

We are taking it easy and mostly resting, repacking everything to get ready for plane flight.  But we had wanted to go to the museum, so we did this afternoon.  This complex was founded in 1025, I believe.  It is a fabulous facility that has lasted a thousand years.  Looking through the frescoes and mosaics and other embellishments of the church, it is a strange thought to think there may be fellow believers from a different time, a different culture who I have never thought about before, who may be in heaven with us.  We walked on the same stones and in the same buildings that they did.  It is fun to think about what life was like, and what those people were like, and if we sat down and talked to each other, despite all the differences, we might have very similar core beliefs and values, and perhaps could be friends.

I climbed to the top of this tower today.  What a great view if the huge city of Kiev.