Our friend and savoir in Almaty
View across Ishim River, Astana
Zenkov Cathedral Almaty (sorry you'll have to flip this one yourselfs)
Statue in Astana beside a water fountain both things Canada lacks
looking down at Medeu (home of the 2011 Asian Winter Games)
So it has finally come the last day in the sega of the Kazakhstan travels and central asia and asia travels off to a new continent YIPPEEE! Europe here we come.. apparently it was only 15 degrees in st.petersburg the other day YES!!!!!!!! Bring on the cold! (Tyson: she says that now but if it is 15'C she'll be whinning worse then ever!) Yes well whinning shmining it will be a nice change.. because im sure turkey and greece will be hot hot hot.
Today we got up.. hard to sleep in when you are in an industrial zone (not that im grumpy about that.. roll of the eyes). But we ate some breakfast that we had left over from our supermarket shopping from yesterdays breakfast and then headed out to get some money exchanged into Rubels for Russia (we actually dont know what the currency is.. for we are now travelling solo with no lonely planet or guide books with us.. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR SUGGESTED PLACES TO EAT!!!!... ) McDonalds it is! After that we sat down and ate again.. because breakfast really wasn't enough so we had also brought some bread and peanut butter and ate that. Then went to find this museum that actually doesn't exist no more.. thats another wrong for the lonely planet book of lies!
So then we decided to go paddling in the river. We put a hard hour in peter you would be proud.. haha except it wasn't paddling, it was a boat that you paddled with your feet.. and we didn't really go hard.. we more like floated along the river with the occasional feet push. ( that is what Sara did, I had to get us up and down the river) I would like to state that that is a lie.. and since i only tell the truth i paddled just as much as Tyson did.. he just wants to sound macho like! Anyways it was another hot day..plus 30 something and hanging out on the river was nice... excpet we had no water left so we were both really thirsty. Needless to say after paddling we looked for some liquids. We found some and got some ice tea and tyson got some sugary popcicle thing that was really to sweet for him but he liked the brain freeze effect that came with it.. we both miss slurpees very much!
After that paddling we decided to head to the mall to see if we could find some postcards so that we could pass some time on the train writing to people. There were no postcards there but Tyson found a key chain for himself and i found one also.. however this was after we walked back to find the other postcards we had previously found earlier in the day .. At the mall the first time we were hungry so we had some pizza again (we eat a lot of pizza.. just so easy that way and filling) but this time it took a mere 12 minutes literally instead of 2 hours it was amazingly fast and half the price.. we dont know why..it was the same place just we were inside rather then outside and we ordered the exact same pizza.. but then again when have we understood anything in this country? After that we then proceeded to go back to the first place we saw the postcards pick them up and then go back to the mall to get Tysons key chain.
Then we went to the grocery store to load up on some food for the 2.5 day train ride tomorrow. Got some essentials, bread, chocolate, candy to suck on, water, juice, pringles, oranges (we have learned our lesson that oranges travel much better then bananas), cucumbers, sunflower seeds, and yogurt for breakfast tomorrow... oh and tyson said ichic ban..we like eating the raw noodles.
And now we are at the internet place.. not a real eventful day.. just lots of walking around and hanging out and getting ready for the uber long train ride.. aaaawhk (i dont know what that word means.. but something along the lines of so not cool that its 2.5 days on a train.. to YAY! were going to Europe!)
I would also like to mention that it is about 4 weeks till I arrive on a Greek Island! Which means it is exactly starting tomorrow 6 weeks till we come home.. (Tyson: urgh, how time flies..) Well i sort of agree with him.. im also super excited to get home to see everyone and share things and play bocce ball and drink starbucks!
Well time to go get packed up and get some few hours of sleep.. we leave our hotel at 5:00 am tomorrow morning.. see you all in MOSCOW!!!!!
Today we got up.. hard to sleep in when you are in an industrial zone (not that im grumpy about that.. roll of the eyes). But we ate some breakfast that we had left over from our supermarket shopping from yesterdays breakfast and then headed out to get some money exchanged into Rubels for Russia (we actually dont know what the currency is.. for we are now travelling solo with no lonely planet or guide books with us.. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO FOR SUGGESTED PLACES TO EAT!!!!... ) McDonalds it is! After that we sat down and ate again.. because breakfast really wasn't enough so we had also brought some bread and peanut butter and ate that. Then went to find this museum that actually doesn't exist no more.. thats another wrong for the lonely planet book of lies!
So then we decided to go paddling in the river. We put a hard hour in peter you would be proud.. haha except it wasn't paddling, it was a boat that you paddled with your feet.. and we didn't really go hard.. we more like floated along the river with the occasional feet push. ( that is what Sara did, I had to get us up and down the river) I would like to state that that is a lie.. and since i only tell the truth i paddled just as much as Tyson did.. he just wants to sound macho like! Anyways it was another hot day..plus 30 something and hanging out on the river was nice... excpet we had no water left so we were both really thirsty. Needless to say after paddling we looked for some liquids. We found some and got some ice tea and tyson got some sugary popcicle thing that was really to sweet for him but he liked the brain freeze effect that came with it.. we both miss slurpees very much!
After that paddling we decided to head to the mall to see if we could find some postcards so that we could pass some time on the train writing to people. There were no postcards there but Tyson found a key chain for himself and i found one also.. however this was after we walked back to find the other postcards we had previously found earlier in the day .. At the mall the first time we were hungry so we had some pizza again (we eat a lot of pizza.. just so easy that way and filling) but this time it took a mere 12 minutes literally instead of 2 hours it was amazingly fast and half the price.. we dont know why..it was the same place just we were inside rather then outside and we ordered the exact same pizza.. but then again when have we understood anything in this country? After that we then proceeded to go back to the first place we saw the postcards pick them up and then go back to the mall to get Tysons key chain.
Then we went to the grocery store to load up on some food for the 2.5 day train ride tomorrow. Got some essentials, bread, chocolate, candy to suck on, water, juice, pringles, oranges (we have learned our lesson that oranges travel much better then bananas), cucumbers, sunflower seeds, and yogurt for breakfast tomorrow... oh and tyson said ichic ban..we like eating the raw noodles.
And now we are at the internet place.. not a real eventful day.. just lots of walking around and hanging out and getting ready for the uber long train ride.. aaaawhk (i dont know what that word means.. but something along the lines of so not cool that its 2.5 days on a train.. to YAY! were going to Europe!)
I would also like to mention that it is about 4 weeks till I arrive on a Greek Island! Which means it is exactly starting tomorrow 6 weeks till we come home.. (Tyson: urgh, how time flies..) Well i sort of agree with him.. im also super excited to get home to see everyone and share things and play bocce ball and drink starbucks!
Well time to go get packed up and get some few hours of sleep.. we leave our hotel at 5:00 am tomorrow morning.. see you all in MOSCOW!!!!!
Sara and Tyson
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