Weekend 07.03-04.10

This past weekend I went to Lena's parents house. I love it there. She has like this massive garden with everything- cucumbers, raspberries, strawberries, lettuce, etc. So we ate raspberries and sour cherries the whole time, picking them fresh when we ran low. And her mom prepares the most delicious dishes and after she's done cooking we all help to carry the food and drinks to this gazebo covered in grape vines. Then we eat. Each meal takes about three hours to finish. The best part is-- her mom doesn't speak English but for some reason I understand her perfectly and we have awesome conversations!!!! This makes me soooo happy.

Anyways.

For breakfast I had these pastry things with tvorok which is like a dehydrated curdled cheese thing, sounds weird, but when you mix it with sour cream and sugar and then you add your choice of raspberries or strawberries, it's absolutely delicious. Then we had this summer squash thing with garlic and that was fantastic and I had the most delicious hot chocolate and a cup of tea as well.

Then we went to the market, to buy some food and some bug spray to numb the itch of my mosquito bitten body. Sidenote---there are tons of mosquitoes here, for some reason, I fool myself into thinking that mosquitoes only exist in America and Africa but I am proven wrong every time. The market is really cool because you get to try the food and fruit before trying it and it's just a great environment.




Then we went to her mom's friend's dacha and went to a river to swim. The water was great until the creepy seaweed started to exist, so I refused to go into the deep part, until someone let me borrow a floaty thing. I floated over it just fine, but I'm not letting any scary seaweed monster grab me and take me under

Then we returned to the dacha and had this potato carrot vegetable stew, but not stew thing. And this wonderful salad and perfectly seasoned tomatoes and kompot which is like a homemade berry juice---I just kept eating and eating, then I fell asleep.



They have the biggest bunny I've ever seen.

When I awoke we went back to Lena's mom place and had dinner which was like this garlic-y dill potato thing and cucumberandtomato salad and then for desert we had fruits and tea. Then we watched the game--- woot woot SPAIN! Then we fell asleep again. I really love hanging out with her mom, she is so Russian.