Random Stuff

This post includes some random pictures that don’t fit anywhere else.

One of the things we love about living here is an endless supply of yummy cheap bread at the stores. The new Mega Mall has a Turkish chain groceries store called Ramstore with one of my favorite bakeries. A loaf of yummy steaming hot bread cost about 60 cents, and they have so many kinds of it. One of our favorites is this set of big rolls called Romashka (means “daisy”). There are 7 rolls in each set that make up a flower shaped loaf. The picture below shows 8 of these sets that we bought for our church potluck lunch one day, and we paid a little over $3 for all of it!

Kids have been into playing Lego lately. This is the sight we love to see: all four of them playing together without arguing, fighting or blaming each other for every little mistake in the world. Love it!

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 This next picture is of the NU main atrium. We walk through it every day, since they connected our apartment building with the University through a tunnel. It is especially nice in the winter!

One day the twins decided to check if their friends could really tell them apart as they always stated. They usually do not dress the same but that morning they dug out all of their cloths and found exactly the same outfits, down to the hair scrunchies and clips! The report was that they were able "to trick the friends in many ways"! A side note: we don't belong to the Patriots fan club but somehow we ended up with these two shirts.

Nika got into baking lately. It does take her two hours or more to make something but it is usually very yummy and thus I am willing to wait! Here she made a coffee cake that turned out AWESOME!

Babushka is here once again! It's been a nice perk of living here. She comes twice a year for a few months, and the girls always looking forward to her visits. And not just the girls, but our dog Yuki too. They all get spoiled rotten when she is here! Babushka is here for the whole summer this time and will stay with Yuki while we travel.

 We love, love, love the sunsets in Astana. There is something different about it in the steppe. The sky will go from blue to purple to pink to bright red. Unfortunately the picture doesn't do it a justice, you just have to see it in person!

This is a view from our west window. They are drying these wetlands to build something there later.