Package
Today we got our first package from family in PA. It only took two months to get here! But it finally came. Before we were able to get the package though, first you get a notice in the mail from the post office saying you have a package. Then you have to go the post office nearest you and pick it up. There are two post offices pretty close to us, so Micah and Andrei decided to go for a walk to the one we had already been to. Some time later they come home empty handed! Oh no! What happened? Micah said that that post office didn’t have it. So they decided to walk to the other one just a little bit further in the other direction. When they got home, Micah says, guess who its from? Yay! From Nelson and Sheri! Thanks guys!! It definitely made our month!
Thanks for the pictures boys! They are now on the fridge.
Checking out the goodies!
By the way, the weather is just a tad cooler than it has been (90F better than 100F), it sprinkled for a bit today and the smog has cleared a lot. Not totally, but its way better than it has been.
So long long hair
goodbye long hair
straightened by the salon stylist
styled by Katrina
Yesterday I went with a friend here to get my hair cut. It ended being a bit shorter than I had in mind, but what can you do when you can’t explain exactly what you want. I was desperate for a change and with it being so hot, now was the right time.
Never ending smoke
So the other day when we thought the smoke couldn’t get any worse, we were wrong. Today looks like a huge cloud has just settled over us, we can barely see the buildings across the street!
taken at 11 am
Our friend Ivor explained it best – “You may or may not have heard of the forest and peat fires that are burning all across Russia. All though not threatened by the fire, when the wind is blowing in the right direction, or in this case the wrong direction, the city gets blanketed with the smoke or smog form these fires. So we are forced to stay indoors and keep our windows closed.”
This weekend we will be staying in our apartment to wait out the smoke, we are hoping for rain!
Six Sandowiches 