Off to the Black Sea...

A quick post for our faithful readers to let you know that we are heading to the Black Sea tonight and will not be blogging or emailing for two weeks...unless, that is we can find an Internet Cafe at the small town we will be staying at. The town has a population of around six thousand so I'm not expecting one to be there. We will be with the youth from the congregation we attend and we are hoping this will be a time of bonding, sharing and resting.

So far this week we have been keeping busy with Russian lessons and harvesting. Our tutor is back from holidays and so we have resumed our lessons. She is starting to feel more like a friend than a tutor as we often visit and share different aspects of our lives. We also had our friend Victor come over and take our plums. Our plum tree was ripe and was making a mess by dropping plums all over the place. I don't fancy plums and Laurie likes them but can't eat a whole tree herself. So when Victor heard that we had all these plums that were going to waste he graciously offered to take them. And he sure got a load full, almost 80 lbs of plums. He said he was going to make some jam and compote with them but I also hope he knows some other plum lovers cuz 80 lbs, I think is not humanly possible to consume by yourself.