Fairy Tales

We ate at McDonalds for lunch, because Karina wanted to go there. She had a Big Mac and fries and Coke and fortunately, didn't like it except for the fries. That is good for us! We were hoping this would be the case as we highly discourage Coka Cola. She does like sour cream and chives chips, though - in a big way.

We then walked to a bigger bookstore called Read City. For families coming to Ukraine after us, you may really like this bookstore because books are in Russian, and it takes Mastercard. And, the selection is the biggest we have seen yet. (Typically, bookstore are little boutiques. This one is like half the size of a Barnes & Nobles Store! Wow! And has a whole floor of kids books.) To find it, here is a map: http://www.localyte.com/attraction/38111--Book-Store-Read-City--Ukraine--Kiev--Kiev  The only Russian bookstore we have found in America, is in Brooklyn. And, books here average about $8 each USD, so as long as we can get them back, we're good for her summer reading. Karina migrates to books for 7-8 year olds. Her favorite is a book of fairy tales from the Winx fairies. Here is the wonderworld she has created from the characters now:
 
стелла анна мария
муза рада
блум карина
лейла анастасия
флора мама
текна инесса
...это клуб винк

Stella is Anna Maria (her good friend)
Musa is Rada (her good friend)
Bloom is Karina
Leila is Anastasia (her good friend)
Flora is Mama (Wow, I made the list!)
Techna is Inessa (her good friend)
...this is club Vink (Winx)

At Read City, we got the first Harry Potter book in the series, the first Chronicles of Narnia book in the series, she selected Winnie the Pooh, some more fairy tale books, and then one of us selected some books about loving animals and caring for people (who selected that? [wink!]). Our morning was spent watching Beauty and the Beast on Russian TV (which she also watched last night on TV with Papa, but thankfully she had to show it to Mama, so it gave us something to do for the morning which was good). She is the "Beauty," she said. A fairy tale life is her dream. The weather is sunny, so we will venture to St. Andrews church in a minute. It is pretty inside. Hopefully, she will like it. Like a fairy tale.