Cody's B-day and More Hikes!!

The blog is working--so quickly down loaded a few pictures. They don't really fit together but who knows when we get the chance again.

Cody had his b-day w/in the first week of returning to Kazakhstan. It wasn't so easy to find friends that were back from the holiday but these guys made for a very fun afternoon. They wanted a tatoo and so while they waited for the water to make the tatto stick, they had to count to twenty in their native language. We heard Korean, Dutch, Kazkh, Russian and of course English.

Hike number 1--out to the apple orchards and then to the water dam which looks down upon a woman doing her laundry by hand in her front yard and you can see their outdoor shower too. The luxeries of Almaty.

Hike number 2--we drove up to Big Almaty Lake--the water supply for the city. On the way down we stopped by these statues. After a summer in Smithers with the surplus of bears--this is quite a change--this will be the closest thing we have here for wildlife!!