I must be out of my mind...

So, we all went to bed at 10 on Saturday night and had to get up at 2a.m. to get ready and catch an 04:22 train to Lvov.  Of course there were fireworks and fire crackers and carousing outside our building so it got to be 2am and I didn't sleep at all.  We got to the train station in enough time to get tickets back to Kiev.  We will leave Tuesday night and get to Kiev at 10 Wednesday morning.
We had a first class compartment on the train.  In Ukraine, first class means four bunks, two lower, two upper.  Since we were three people, we arrived to our compartment to find a middle aged woman on her home to a small village after begin diagnosed and having chemo for cancer.  There was no way I was going in an upper bunk!  Well, after not sleeping before the train, I continued to not sleep on the train.  We were in the last car in the train and it felt like we were being whipped around like in cartoon trains.  There was a toilet at each end of our train car.  I spend the morning hours semi-comatose and woke myself up occassionally snoring.  I've had a bit of a sore throat since arrival - probably due to the people coughing and hacking their way across the Atlantic.  When we arrived in Kiev, we walked around a lot amidst the incredible crowds who are here for the long weekend holiday.  We finally found a cafeteria of the same brand as the one I ate at on Friday and I had ...wait for it....borsch, varenikis and kvass.  I was really dragging my behind and didn't finish my varenikis - my friends did.  We didn't have a place to stay for the night, by the way.  We took a taxi over to a friend's apartment and stayed for a while laughing, talking, drinking coffee with cognac and generally being a bit outrageous. Our host is a talented pianist who is in love with three ladies: Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday and the third one escaped me.  Chalk it up the effect of the cognac on a tired head.  Our host also play a few classical pieces for us.  Very nice.  They knew of two small hotels.  We walked to the first (did I mention it was pouring rain?) and there was no room at the inn.  We walked to the second:  they only had single rooms so we'd need to pay for three.  There was a lot of discussion but by that time I just wanted to lie down.  Three rooms cost about $25 dollars each.  It's not a luxury hotel but it's clean and has hot water and toilet and shower in each room.  At that point, it sounded like heaven to me.  All I wanted was a hot shower and a nap, not necessarily in that order.  The gang "allowed" me two hours.  I napped hard for an hour, showered a long lovely shower and now I'm catching up on this blog, expecting to be invaded any minute.  It's going on 9pm (21:00) and I'm going to try to fight the good fight to be left alone for the night.  I'm not at all sure I'll win.  I can truthfully say, I'm not a kid anymore.  Tomorrow, we'll take some conveyance (bus or train) to the city of Ivano-Frankivisk.  Wednesday, when I arrive in Kiev, I am going to spend the day at home and in solitude.  Right now, I'm wondering how strong my resolve is to stay in tonight.  Stay tuned.