A different church in Moscow
Today we went to International Christian Assembly - one of the two Assembly of God churches in Russia. We heard about this church from an AG missionary that visited our church last winter. We wanted to get together with him while we were in Moscow, so he invited us to his church and then we went out for lunch afterward.
Andrei spent his first time in Children's church this week. There were only two children because it was the early service and most of the families come to the late service. But he drew a picture (see last post) and got some cookies and played with the younger kids. I was a nervous wreck, of course, leaving him, but when I went in there after service he was all smiles and the worker said he did very well. I think last week there were too many kids and this week he could just play the whole time. I'm debating whether I want to take him to church the day after we get back, for Wednesday night kid's service. I guess I'll just see how much sleep we get. If anything, we can just walk home if he wants to.
After church Doug, the missionary, and his family took us on the Metro. It was pretty cool. We were too chicken to go by ourselves earlier in the trip, but now I kind of regret not going sooner. The deepest part of the Metro is over 100 feet underground, and you take a humungous escalator which feels like you're going into Moria. It's disorienting and very steep - you have to catch yourself from falling forward. I was a little disappointed that we didn't go through one of the cooler Metro stations.
We ate lunch at McDonalds, and just like the other times we took Andrei there, he was only interested in his toy and didn't eat barely a bite of his food.
After McD's, we walked to Starbucks. Starbucks is very new in Moscow because someone bought the rights to the name in Russia and wouldn't sell it to Starbucks without going to court. Finally they settled and Starbucks opened it's first two stores in Moscow this year. It was delicious. I had my favorite- a Peppermint Mocha - and a large cost $10. Ouch. But it tasted so good. Also, if I would have been home these past 3 weeks, I would have spent much, much more than $10 at Starbucks. Brent had a Large Latte and his was $9 I think.
After that Dima came and picked us up and we did a little shopping, and then he took us home. It was about 3 PM, so we were glad to be winding down the day. Tomorrow morning I plan to pack most of our things, then in the afternoon we get Andrei's passport back so we can get the heck outta here!!
Wahoo!
Andrei spent his first time in Children's church this week. There were only two children because it was the early service and most of the families come to the late service. But he drew a picture (see last post) and got some cookies and played with the younger kids. I was a nervous wreck, of course, leaving him, but when I went in there after service he was all smiles and the worker said he did very well. I think last week there were too many kids and this week he could just play the whole time. I'm debating whether I want to take him to church the day after we get back, for Wednesday night kid's service. I guess I'll just see how much sleep we get. If anything, we can just walk home if he wants to.
After church Doug, the missionary, and his family took us on the Metro. It was pretty cool. We were too chicken to go by ourselves earlier in the trip, but now I kind of regret not going sooner. The deepest part of the Metro is over 100 feet underground, and you take a humungous escalator which feels like you're going into Moria. It's disorienting and very steep - you have to catch yourself from falling forward. I was a little disappointed that we didn't go through one of the cooler Metro stations.
We ate lunch at McDonalds, and just like the other times we took Andrei there, he was only interested in his toy and didn't eat barely a bite of his food.
After McD's, we walked to Starbucks. Starbucks is very new in Moscow because someone bought the rights to the name in Russia and wouldn't sell it to Starbucks without going to court. Finally they settled and Starbucks opened it's first two stores in Moscow this year. It was delicious. I had my favorite- a Peppermint Mocha - and a large cost $10. Ouch. But it tasted so good. Also, if I would have been home these past 3 weeks, I would have spent much, much more than $10 at Starbucks. Brent had a Large Latte and his was $9 I think.
After that Dima came and picked us up and we did a little shopping, and then he took us home. It was about 3 PM, so we were glad to be winding down the day. Tomorrow morning I plan to pack most of our things, then in the afternoon we get Andrei's passport back so we can get the heck outta here!!
Wahoo!
posted by Tracy at 12:27 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds like you had a very cool day. And sometimes Starbucks is definitely worth 10 bucks! :)
I'm sure you're just counting the hours until you get home!
Post a Comment
<< Home