Summer time

Today is 31 of July and it is officially the end of middle summer and we start heading towards the end of it. The rain behind the window reassure us. So hot chocolate and looking through summer pictures and writing down about our summer adventures sounds like a good thing to do to make us all feel cozy and happy.

I posted about the beggining of June and it was nice. I love green grass and finally warm weather. But it became even better. On the 11th or something I took my girls and we went to the resourt place not far from Ufa. It was a benefit from my mother's work and it wasn't expencive and we all loved it. It is located in a nice area  close to the river. We got massages, we were fed 5 times a day and met some very nice people. A couple of times my mother and Kevin came by to visit us. While we were gone Kevin bought a bike and was talking care of some stuff at home. He would drive a bike to us when he missed us too much. This is where we live.It would take him 30 minutes on bike to get to us.
Here are some pictures from there

After that we came back home to spend a week with Kevin before he went to Anapa for 1,5 a month. It was a very busy week. We went strawberry picking and froze some berries for winter, we organized moving of some building blocks that we were presented to build a room in the downstairs of our apartment building. Everybody got some space there to use as a storage, we just need to build up walls and the door. The evening before Kevin's early morning flight we were moving those heavy blocks downstairs up to 1.30 am. So we slept only 3 hours before Kevin's taxi arrived. Same day I packed and moved to my mother for a couple of days until we left for Pavlovka. A friend of ours have a house there. It is located in a small village with electricity installed there only last year.They go there every summer for 2 weeks and take some friends with them. We jumped in. Their daughter is the same age as me and she has two kids, so we had a nice company there. We spent as much time as possible on the river, eating different berries, walking and taking pictures. Celest was a lot of work but still I had some great opportunities to swim and to row the boat, gather some tea herbs and enjoy sauna type thing they have by the river. Yeva was bitten by Acari. There is a very dangerous one that carry a very dangerous decease. So we had to take it out and ordered a special immune treatment from the city for Yeva and gave her a shot. She's fine, but it was a scary experience.

You can check out Pavlovka pictures here. 

Here are some more from special photo session we had there.

When we got back we staid for a week with my mother and then went to stay for a week in the summer house with my grandma Raya. We went to see and pet horses there, Yeva even got to ride one. We went swimming to the river, ate lots of berries and fresh vegetables. Celest really liked huge tomatoes. Here are some pictures from there.