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A bit of anticipation brightens a rainy day |
Today
it was Annelise that was polite and well behaved
while Annabelle was irritable and difficult to get down for naps. I kind of wonder if she’s getting a little sick – she sneezed
frequently throughout the day.
And she’s tugging at her left ear so I wonder if she’s
getting an ear infection – oh, I hope not. That would not make my upcoming travel
(yippee!) easier.
It
is the countdown to leaving Kokshetau. I depart on Sunday, the 28th for
Almaty so that’s only 5 days left, thank
goodness. I will have been here 39 days when I finally leave. Then I am in Almaty
doing paperwork/embassy visits/passport stuff for 4 days and leave in the
middle of the night on June 3rd.
To
get from Kokshetau to Almaty
involves a 3 hour plane flight on a Russian made Yak 40. I haven’t seen
the plane yet since I arrived via Astana and a nice Boeing 727, but from what I
understand, it’s a piece of shit plane that is terribly uncomfortable and
probably not all that safe. Well,
hopefully it’ll hold together for yet another flight. I have a relatively
moderate fear of flying - particularly flying in old as crap planes - stemming
from my years in
Today’s
movie was the first half of “Anne of Green Gables”, one of my all
time favorite movies and it turns out Allison’s too. Marg and I had
an annual chick fest marathon where we would make popcorn, make fru-fru drinks and watch Anne of Green Gables (the original
and the sequel), and the BBC Pride and Prejudice. All in all about 12 hours of back to
back restrained romance where there are only 2 kisses in all 12 hours, one at 6
hours (when Anne finally kisses Gilbert) and the kiss between Elizabeth and
Darcy at the end of P&P.
Anyway,
our only excitement today was hearing that another single woman will be staying
at the cottage tonight. As far as
we can tell, she is only staying the one night, which is confusing. We know there are no babies to adopt
here in Kokshetau. But if she was going to Schuchinsk wouldn’t she be staying longer? Anyway, just the prospect of meeting
another person is very exciting and we passed a good hour chatting about the
various possibilities of who, why, what, where. Oh, how completely sad are we?
And
even more sad news is I didn’t take a single pic
of Annabelle today. She was so
fussy and out of sorts and I was fussy and out of sorts so it just didn’t
happen. So I’ll just stick in
some photos from previous days that I got from the Brookes’. Bad Mama, Bad Mama!
Click
on any of these for a bigger view
A
Yurt on May Day
Typical
soviet era piping system, this is part of the central heating system in town.
(The one that goes off May 1 even if there is snow on the ground)
Rada our translator
The
girls
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