Happy New Year!
Verena and I spent New Years’ Eve watching Up and enjoying some cheese and crackers.
We’re looking forward to the new year, anticipating how Zoya will develop as a young girl. Verena is taking on more responsibilities in her job as a librarian at a local college, and I’m applying for different positions within RIM.
Busy bee
Tired bee
Decorating the tree
Helping make cookies
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From my favourite Ukrainian blogger , the following is an excerpt from her translation of a blog describing journalists trying to make arrangements to photograph the Ukrainian Navy:
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A day later, I called the press service again:
- Good afternoon, my name is Serhiy Maksimishin, photographer with the Stern chronicle, Germany. I’d like to ask if there’s been any reaction to our fax letter.
- What fax letter? There haven’t been any fax letters from Germany.
- What do you mean there haven’t been any? Our newsroom said they had sent one yesterday…
- They couldn’t have sent anything, because we couldn’t have received anything.
- How come???
- Because we’ve been out of fax paper for a week already.
- Oh God, when will you get it?
- Actually, we do have it, but the person who knows how to insert it isn’t here.
- And when will this person appear?
- Call us back on Monday, maybe someone will show up…
Ah, Ukraine!
Our Cruise with Brian’s Parents
We are finally getting around to posting some pictures from our trip with Brian’s parents to the Caribbean. It was a great time for Zoya to be with her grandparents. Z really enjoyed playing in the water and the sand, always asking when she could go swimming as we passed the pool. The food was good, with a nice variety of food in the buffet room and the evening dinners had some great dishes. The ports we stopped at weren’t very interesting from a touristy perspective (for us anyways), but there were some nice beaches for us to be at. We don’t know if we’ll ever do a cruise again, as the cost is quite high and being confined on a boat isn’t really our style of travel. Both of us would prefer train travel (of the European and Japanese kind) over boat travel.
Here are the pictures:
The golf resort we stayed at the night before departing from Fort Lauderdale:
Zoya having her morning coffee with Verena on the balcony:
Sunset from our balcony
In front of our ship
At the pool on the ship
More pictures here.
Update on Zoya’s Dance Classes
Here is an update on Zoya’s progress after a few months of home schooling dance instruction.
Notice the complexity of her routine, as she blithely ignores our off-key singing and requests to change out of pajamas? And taking everything to the next level by incorporating the props around her.
Think she’s ready for competition?
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