Travelog for: Mittens

Today Hedgie has arrived. He lives in Germany, but came here from Australia where he was traveling.  We  all are very happy to meet him! He is so-o lovely! )

Today morning Oksana took us to the cinema-house- we watched a new American cartoon "Kung Fu Panda"! We liked it very very much, because the panda there was so-o funny! 








And in the evening Oksana went to the concert hall to watch
some Celtic musical festival and we asked her to  take us with her. The festival was great!

Yesterday evening Oksana took us with her to another Siberian city- Krasnoyarsk. She decided to go there to visit some dolls' exhibition and see the city. We went to Krasnoyarsk by train. It took us about 14 hours to get there.





On the square near Krasnoyarsk railway station.




The church not far from the hotel where we lived:



We were very lucky because on June,12 Krasnoyarsk celebrated not only the Russia's day, but also Krasnoyarsk's 380th annyversary. We could see the carnival on one of the main streets of the city. It was great!!


Here we are in the Patio Pizza. We are going to eat pasta )


Krasnoyarsk has many very interesting and beautiful buildings. There are many old wooden buildings:


In the historical cetre of Krasnoyarsk:


Krasnoyarsk has many flowers and trees on the streets.
Tulips are just everywhere there!



We could see many artificial trees with electric lamps instead of flowers. They looked fantastic in the evening!


We are on the bench of  conciliation/peace:


There are many sculptures from plants and flowers on Krasnoyarsk streets:


Some church:


We had a small trip on the steamer "Rocket" about the Krasnoyarsk river Yenisey. The steamer was very fast!



We visited the local Krasnoyarsk museum which was build in the beging of 20th centure in an Egyptian style:


That's the way Russian old house looked like many years ago:

Today morning  left our hotel and went to the exhibition of dolls and teddybears. It was very interesting!






























In the evening we are going to take our train and return in Novosibirsk. See you soon!

Today Hector teddybear arrived in Novosibirsk.  He came from England and he is so-o lovely!
We are  best friends now!

Today night Oksana and we went to the republic Altay to visit the festival of ethnic music "Live water 2008".
It took us one night to get there by bus.
The nature was very beautiful there- we lived  near hills, forrest and river.




We saw this lizard many times near our tent house!


The place where we lived:












Waiting for the concert:

Today morning we went to the beach. In fact there is no real sea in Novosibirsk, but there is a big river Ob (it devides the city into two parts) and the Ob reservoir, which is called here the Ob sea.
We had a nice picnic there- played in the sand, sunbathed, ate many fruits and other tasty food, played in the forrest, etc.
We came home in the evening- we felt very tired but happy










We saw many beautiful sailing ships!

Last Sunday- on June,29 Novosibirsk celebrated it's 115 annyversary. We enjoyed the City Day very much!
Many ballons, flowers, lots of music, happy people with children...










At the fair:






With the beautiful roses:




A kiss


The street musicians  from Ecuador:


The fountain-bear


One more fountain:

Today is my last day in Novosibirsk, because tomorrow Oksana will send me to Brunei to my new host. So we've decided to spend this evening at home. At first we were watching the detective story about Miss Marple by Agatha Christie.


Then we talked a lot with our new friends who live with Oksana.




We were reading a very interesting fairy tale by Alexander Volkov "The Magician of the emerald castle"





Looking for the countries we are going to visit in the map. Hey, I've found Brunei! )


And we played the cards. It was very funy!



I feel a bit sad because tomorrow morning I will have to leave- I will certainly miss my dear friends Donald, Hedgie, Hector and NormaNikkers and others But I hope we will meet again some day! And now wish me a nice and safe journey! Till soon!