Around Town

 We took a suit of Elder Smith's into the local dry cleaners this last week ...these old instruments were on display - the iron looks like the ones the pioneer used -but the hand carved scrubbing board? yikes - not only do you need to scrub your clothes on it - - you need to make it first!!  Glad to be living in the age of modern washing machines!

 This poster was up at the Dry Cleaners - yay for Russia hosting the World Cup ! I really like the logo - it will be fun to experience...even though we are four hours away from Moscow.

 This is the ice sheet that forms under the Town Pump - I guess people still need water in the winter. Notice the sidewalks - they throw a little dirt on top of the snow and ice - Sister Heiselbetz's calls it  brown sugar!!

 This is a picture of the stroller with sled rails - baby was enjoying the ride!  Notice the far left of the picture - a whole row of the trees with red berries - I should find out what they are.

 Closer view of the cute baby stroller.

 Here we have a dead Novosibirsk rat!  It is right downtown - notice the building in the background - red M on top?  that is the Metro (Subway) station.  Also notice the brown sand on top of the snow.

 Closer picture of Mister Rat for Emilee Pike - it was a dead mongoose in Jamaica - remember?

Elder Smith talked me into getting my hair cut - - I like it and so does he!

At our local market they had these Koi fish - giant goldfish!  no - we didn't purchase any - the salmon we got there was delicious however!

 We had English Speaking Club at our apartment Saturday afternoon - here is the front entry with all the boots and shoes that the club members took off!

Here are their coats! - we really had a nice time - they wanted to learn about Thanksgiving ... so we printed out an 'ice breaker' get to know you game - one young man asked: We are going to break some ice?  Then we played a "Scavenger Hunt" kind of game - they didn't know what 'scavenger' was - one young lady used her phone translator and told us it said: Trashman!  We laughed a lot.  The last game we played was pictionary - on a white board - with simple English words ...then we had shredded turkey on rolls, two kinds of salads and three desserts - a good time was had by all!