On Thursday, August 10, we went back for more to the Expo. We had bought tickets for the Cirque du Soleil show that evening, so we planned on attending the Expo all day. We went a bit later in the day - starting after lunch - since the show didn't start until 7:30, and we knew it would be a long day.
Our plan for the day was to make it through all of the pavilions that we hadn't made it through on Tuesday. We did a pretty good job of seeing everything, even though we missed the Korean pavilion, which was the most popular pavilion of the Expo because it was completely full - and completely booked for return visits by the time we got there.
There were a number of fun pavilions that we saw - the Austrian pavilion sponsored by Red Bull and turned into a fun playground that used different machines to make air that moved machines and made noise was a favorite for the kids. Oma loved the pavilion about Lithuania and made friends with the worker there by asking so many good questions. In the end they gave us a nice picture book of the country. We also went through the USA pavilion. We didn't see any of our friends from BYU that had been coming to church with us all summer when we went through, so that was our small disappointment for the day.
For dinner we went to a little food court building. It had a few fancier places, and a pizza and burger fast food type of restaurant. The girls voted for hamburgers, so we had burgers for dinner. Oma was quite tired after a long day of walking, so she and I relaxed while Yulia, Babushka, and the girls went into the African pavilion to round out the pavilions that we hadn't seen. We also took some time to go into the pavilions from the Central Asian states (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) that we hadn't been through on the first day.
The highlight of the day was the circus. They had designed a special show just for the expo that incorporated traditional Kazakh themes as well as the themes of energy and technology from the Expo. We knew some of the performers - the fire eating act and trapeze artists - from church, so we had extra fun watching for their parts in the show. The show was fantastic from start to finish. We don't have pictures from it - just from the warm up while we were waiting for the show to start.
By the time we finished for the day and walked home, we'd had a very long and very exciting day. The Expo didn't disappoint Oma or us. We thought it was an event that was done well.
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| Outside the Qatari pavilion - so bright. |
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| Inside the US pavilion |
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| Walking outside the pavilions at Expo 2017 |
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| Finland Pavilion - building with wood. |
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| Hungarian pavilion, one of the favorites for the kids! |
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| More Hungarian pavilion. |
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| Hungary III |
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| Hungary IV |
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| Lithuanian pavilion |
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| Looking at our photo book of Lithuania |
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| Oma taking a virtual tour of Lithuania |
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| Italian pavilion 3d- printing. |
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| 3d printer in Italian pavilion. |
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| British Pavilion - all about earth and the cosmos. |
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| Low energy, high brightness light bulbs at British Pavilion. |
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| Taking a rest near a tour group |
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| Austrian pavilion |
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| Making music with air |
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| See-saw air machine. |
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| Czech pavilion was very futuristic. |
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| Czech pavilion. |
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| German pavilion. |
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| Also German pavilion. |
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| German pavilion - BMW |
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| German pavilion - energy from conservation and saving energy. |
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| More scenes from the expo grounds. With hundreds of small pinwheels to capture the wind. There were shaded areas with grass and solar as well, and one with water. |
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| Turkish day parade. |
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| Dinner |
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| African Pavilion |
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| African Pavilion II |
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| African Pavilion III - a market |
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| African Pavilion IV |
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| Turkmenistan - a saddle to show Uncle Burl. |
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| Turkmenistan II |
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| Turkmenistan III |
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| Yurt |
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| Inside the Yurt |
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| Waiting for Cirque! |
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| Getting the crowd ready! |
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| Leaving Expo in the evening with Nur Alem lit up in the background. |
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