Day 4 - 09/23/2008

Not much to report today. We're playing the waiting game for our second appointment. We rode the subway to the mall and let the boys play in the arcade. It's a large arcade. The games themselves are all in English. Once again, language differences made things interesting. You purchase a card for 5 Hryvna and then load the card with whatever amount you want to play the games. Simple enough except when you don't really understand what they're saying. Fortunately, they were very helpful at the arcade and after a bit of trying to break the language barrier they called, whom I assume, is the manager and she spoke enough English to explain the system to us.

A word of advice for anybody bringing a Nintendo DS Lite along. The AC adapter is not dual voltage so just using a plug adapter doesn't work. I'm really surprised that Nintendo doesn't provide a dual voltage adapter but they don't. We're plugging a 110 volt item into a 220 volt outlet, which could actually burn out the adapter. Fortunately, it appears the AC adapter just shuts down before it's burned out. We're now trying to find either a European Nintendo AC adapter or a voltage converter - so far no luck. I thought about bringing a converter but didn't think we needed it. Live and learn ...

(Photo of the Kapabah mall. This is the mall with the 'Megastore'.)

(Yes, women here are wearing a lot of high heels and pointy toe shoes.)