The end of Summer

On the train with friends!

Waiting for our bus after a tiring day of walking,
swimming, & perusing the market

So here are a few pictures of the last few things we did this summer.  Just ordinary stuff.  The weather cooled off a little so we have gone from the miserable & muggy heat to pants and jackets in a matter of a week or two.  It's a comfortable temperature out now, hopefully it will stay like this for a while!

Backyard fun, Babooshka Anna cleaned her with the hose!

The girls started a gymnastics class.  It is mostly fitness and learning trampalene work.  Their coach, Konstantinovich is showing our weak American children how to get fit and they are learning that there is no cheating, not even for 5 year olds!  Between the solid Russian/Ukranian training in gymnastics and the P.E. class that the girls will be taking with our former MI6 agent; we are pretty sure the girls will be getting quite fit and well trained!

Our last trip to Chernigov we went to the movie theater to watch Despicable Me, of course, it was in Ukranian.  We expected that, but we knew it would still be funny despite not understanding a single word.  Ellie must not have gotten the memo, after a few minutes into the movie she leaned over to me and said, "Mom, I don't understand anything they are saying."  It took her a little while, but I think she evenutally started enjoying the movie.  The funniest part was although we laughed at all the visual and physical comedy, we looked pretty dumb just sitting like silent statues while the rest of the crowd was laughing at something that was said.  I almost began laughing with the local people just so we wouldn't stand out!

Rylie, Ellie and Faith in front of the Chernigov train station.