We made it! This time we flew US Airways to Philadelphia (which is a very nice airport, by the way), then Lufthansa to Frankfurt, and Lufthansa to Kiev. We were worried about the short layover in Phili, but the combination of the pilot flying fast (the flight attendant told us the pilot drove Harley's), and our Lufthansa plane arriving late, made the Phili layover a non-event. Then we were worried because the check-in guy in Atlanta told us we had to retrieve our bags in Frankfurt and go through Customs there. That didn't sound right to me, but who knows. It turns out he was wrong, so that also was a non-event. The Frankfurt airport was the same old maze, but somehow it seemed quaint or quirky this time instead of annoying. German security was the same as always, and this time they hauled Libby off to an isolation room to interrogate her. I stood outside the door peering in like some pitiful lost puppy hoping the didn't handcuff my wife. She got tagged by US security for the same item. She had a fancy bar of soap in her carry-on, and all the security guys freaked out over it. But she made it through both times. As we were leaving the Kiev airport, going through the last security check, a female customs agent right out of the 1970's James Bond movies (pretty, too much makeup, looked like she could squeeze your guts out with the leg scissors hold - remember the one I am talking about - on the train?) came up to us, stopped us abruptly, asked to see my passport, asked me how much money I was carrying . . . And then lost interest and took off after another victim. So this too turned out to be no big deal.
The plan is to leave Kiev Wednesday at noon and drive to Romney, get settled and hopefully see Julia, and then court on Thursday morning. The Fox family is still in Romny, so we are going to finally meet them and hopefully eat supper with them tomorrow night.
This is the view out our kitchen window. We are right on the square near St Sophia's. it would be wonderful to stay here, but it is only for one night.
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