The ants are going to love all the cookie crumbs we're making. It's harder to do our own thing with so many babies and parents needing things between meals, we're finding. Garry made good time driving to the village and back, with only a couple construction detours on Sunday. Since we gave up the four person room, Dima and Julia, who don't have a baby are sharing a three person room with Valentina and Angelina. So far the babies have been good at night, although when Garry arrived and 23 month old Daniel wouldn't stop screaming, the lady who checked them in asked Garry what had he brought here.
Well, Oksana and Kolya had a laugh when they saw their son covered in cookie crumbs when they got back from the sea. Garry, who went with them has not made an appearance yet, but maybe they sped up when this latest thunderstorm swept in off the sea. This group is getting a lot of rain for their days at the sea. After swimming Saturday evening and Sunday ...
This was the point in the post when the thunder and lightning caused a several hour power outage.
It's now Saturday night and we drove back to the village Tuesday morning.
...the stormfront moved in late Sunday afternoon and it poured all evening and night. We were watching the baby so Valentina could walk to the bazaar after dinner and she and Julia and Dima got caught in the downpour. Garry took a photo when they showed up to picked up Angelina. We wrapped her in a beach towel to keep her dry as they headed to their door.
It looked like it might clear up Monday morning but after breakfast, another couple showers rolled in. We walked down to check it out after the rain and found the high water and lots of people taking selfies with the surf.
It cleared up after lunch and the students and Garry went down to swim after lunch. They had a nice swim in the waves, before the next storm came up.
Garry decided to walk to the the chebureki stand, for one last one to eat (see photo of the fried treat) and came in while the thunder and lightning was crazy close, it was pouring rain, and the power was out as I mentioned above. He took a nap.
I was trying to figure out supper without cooking, while the rain continued to pour down for hours. It did come back on before supper time. Some of the students were playing Uno under the shelter after it slowed down. Valentina was happy it came on because she had runout of mixed up milk for the baby.
No one was sad to pack up and head home after breakfast on Tuesday morning. The drive went well once we got out of town, we had to go around a number of hoses pumping out flooded hotel lots as we drove off the "spit".
We were glad to get back to the village and start moving into the house (Crawford's) next door. It's Saturday night and its still a process, hoping to be mostly done by Wednesday when Garry drives me to Kyiv for my flight to Canada.
Wednesday morning we spent the morning with Victor doing our temporary residence stuff again (the cards were ready to pick up and then we had to go to a different place to register them for the year.
After that we picked up a new Sasha to try out farm life. In spite of a physical handicap, he worked hard, they were baling third cut hay on Thursday and Friday, and many of the student knew him already. He'll be back in a week or two.
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