On Monday, I decided to take it easy again. I read a book and slept. At night, we went grocery shopping and saw some of the new stores in Alexei’s neighborhood. Kiev now has “Epicenter K” stores, which are similar to our Home Depot. The warehouse size store even has the same orange motif. It’s amazing to see how things have progressed now that compared to the communist run economy they had in the summer of 1991. That would have made interesting video, but Alexei was starting to wonder why I needed to take video of everything we did.