Pizza Power

Blogging early tonight. I'm exhausted. I didn't sleep well last night. I'm pretty sure its about -50 degrees in my room. I should've brought my fleece jammies and a hoodie.

I'm excited to vegg out tonight, snuggle up in my bed, hopefully by the time bedtime rolls around my bed will be toasty and I'll be able to sleep.

My day today...went to the consulate. The guy at the front desk spoke awesome English. That made me happy. He looked over my papers, asked me why I wanted to go to Ukraine, said "I don't think we can give you a visa, you need an invitation, that should look like this(showing me the fancy official looking letter pictured below)."



"I have one of those" "Oh." (Hands me a miniature map to a bank across town) Let the adventure begin.





You're kidding right?! How am I supposed to read this map?! So lost! Best way to get to know a city? Get lost there. Seriously. I am so grateful for the cute little mom, who tried her hardest to help me and when she couldn't called her husband who speaks English to give me directions. Dear cute family...you rescued my sanity from the brink of calamity. A million jenks! (short for dziękuję, "Thank you" in Polish)

After the bank I started heading home(ish). The consulate closes at noon, so after getting lost, there was nothing more I could do today. So do zaftra...
I happen to have to walk through the mall often when coming to or going anywhere from my hostel....so I walked through the mall. Decided to take a peek at the electronics store. So many things I wanted to buy, good thing I didn't do it. Then I went to the grocery store. I was thinking...what should I do for lunch. Peanut butter and honey on nutty bread. Yum! Ended up filling a basket to overflowing. How did that happen?! Oh yeah...I'm hungry. Tip of the day: Don't go grocery shopping when hungry. I decided I had more than enough junk in my basket to last me a week of occasional snacking, so I headed to the check out. Seriously?! All the lines were so long they reached halfway through the store! Ridiculous. So what did I do? I restocked everything in my basket, and I left. Sometimes its not worth the wait. I didn't need to eat that food anyway.

Instead I met up with the Elders.



It was their P-Day today since they had a conference yesterday. They decided they wanted pizza. I couldn't turn it down. It is Tuesday after all, and Tuesdays are pizza day. Its tradition. Only this time I got to eat at Pizza Hut instead of Dominoes. Pretty sure it changed my life. I forgot how good pizza can taste!





They had a new pizza there. The crown pizza. AMAZING!



It had super delicious stretchy mozzarella :)



I'm only slightly ashamed to say that I was able to eat as much as the Elders. Never again though! I was seriously in pain. It hurt to move afterwards.

Elder Kolinowski champed it and ate the last piece! Way to be Elder. Way to be!



Now I'm stuffed to the brim and ready to relax the night away. Perhaps a movie night is in order. Happy day.