Saturday, April 17, 2010. We awoke today with a call from Nastya saying that the Kiev airport is closed and may be cancelling flights due to the volcanic ash cloud coming our way. She is checking all day and will let us know by 6pm if we are delayed or cancelled. It is kind of a drizzly and cold day, so we stayed in room most of the day. We did venture out about 2:30pm for some lunch at the sushi restaurant next door. The “sake” was quite, eh… interesting, and the fish was obviously frozen and defrosted several times before serving. I think the Ukrainians saw sushi restaurants on TV someplace and tried to imitate them, and not very well. *Note to self: do not eat sushi in Ukraine again.
We got the call about 6pm that our flight was delayed until midnight, but that we were entitled to a full refund of the tickets because of the delay. Not wanting to fly at midnight, we decided to get a driver to take us the 10.5 hours to Severodonetsk in the morning. We got a call from Natalia, our in-region translator, who said that she would pick us up at 7am sharp. We ordered in a light dinner again, and got to bed a little early so that we could get a good rest before our journey in the morning.
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