Don't Judge a book by its cover or wait till you get in the apartment

When we got to Lviv I told Iegor that I knew the billboard said Hotel Restaurant but in my English pronunciation it looked like Rotten Pectopah. He thought that was pretty funny. Now as we walk along he asks me to read signs like they look to me in English. We are coming up with some pretty funny ones. For instance we go to the happy bank for our money.

This is the look of our apartment living room. We have a separate kitchen, toilet, bathroom and entry. It is mostly woods. The place was probably built in the early 1900's.

Our entrance is through the tunnel #35 and then you go up the wooden stairs 4 flights. The old wooden elevator no longer works and hangs up at the top permanently stopped. Elevators are small here by the way. Really small and you are glad when they work. Some of the doors on apartments look original. It is fun to look at them as you climb the stairs and wonder what stories they could tell if doors talked. We go through two locked doors which we unlock with our skeleton keys and bolt behind us to get into our place. It is hard to place pictures so I hope this makes sense. There are shops at the bottom of the apartments and we have an inner courtyard which is crowded with cars buried in snow and one lone tall tree. It is rather Dr. Zhivago like. More later. Sure love you all