The picture above is our view into the courtyard behind our apartment.

We are here in Kiev with 2 other families that we have come to be acquainted with during our adoption journey. Each is at the end of the process and both will probably leave by the week's end. We called yesterday to setup a dinner and learned that they were all going to see a dolphin show here in Kiev and invited us to join them. We met them near the McDonalds and went to their apartment to wait for the drivers.
Doris, the kids and I went together with our non-English-speaking driver in a small Chevrolet car (yes, 4 passengers sat in back where there was room for 2.5 people). The other 2 families and their driver (8 people in all) got into a Opel car. 2 of them were children (7 and 10 years old), but, that was tight fit!
To make a long story short, traffic was bad!!! We crept through the streets for over 3 hours and never made it to the show. As our bladders expanded, the car seemed to get smaller :-)