Left over thought #1

I had my fun making fun of the old Soviet era building the notary worked in, but the fact is that Ukraine is a modern country.  There are remnants of the Soviet influence, with nasty looking old apartment buildings, but there is tons of construction going on, with new good looking apartment buildings going up, roads being improved, no water or power outages (despite all the warnings we had about this :) ).  Kiev is a city of nearly 3 million people, that has existed for over 1000 years!  They had their struggles following the fall of the Soviet empire, but they have their feet under them now and are moving forward.  You have to look out past the foreground in these photos, especially the second picture, but most of what you see out on the horizon is new.