Cooking Merit Badge

Our boys are participating in the Lone Scouting program.  This means, that Chris and I do the merit badges with the boys...  This is good and this is bad...  Anyways, we are currently trying to finish up the cooking merit badge and if you can believe it, they have to cook at home and camping.  So, this is Chris, helping them with that.  They went into the "blessed water" forest and camped over night.  

The Upside Down House

This house was built upside down, inside and out.  It is such a tricky mind thing.  Inside, all of the pictures were taken with the boys right side up.  The ceiling is on the floor and the floor is the ceiling.

If you look out the door, you can see that the trees are upside down.  So, when Chris took the picture, it was the other way.  Seth is really lying on the floor. 

Can you see that Dalton's shorts are sliding down?  And there is a person standing next to him.  

The previous picture shows the two boys on the ceiling but this picture shows how they are actually on the floor.

Curious Fashions

One evening we spent some time at the park.  This is not a park with a playground for kids.  It has fountains and walk ways and food vendors...  I found some most curious fashions happening that I thought, "I should document this".  And so, here it is for your enjoyment.  I am sorry, I don't know how to blur out the faces of the innocent.  I justified this post by knowing that somewhere, I am most likely in someone else's blog, being ridiculed for my American ways.

Do I need to draw your attention to the MAN'S sweater?  The thing that you can't tell from this picture is that he is wearing pink underwear.  Same color as her skirt.

Who wears these shoes to walk around the park in?

Maybe she was heading to the "Homecoming dance" after she was done walking in the park with her friends.  

Although this is a bad picture, the back foot looks pretty good.  These shoes are all the rave here!  They are half gogo boot, half sandle, half meshy something.  Super weird.  

Again with the high heels at the park.

You may think that this girl is propositioning someone on the bench but, it is actually her mom and sisters.  Seems like an appropriate outfit for an evening at the park.  By the way, that is our dinner and it was delicious!  Grilled potatoes and pork!  Mmmm Mmmm!

This is a toofer!  The only time I see any leg around here is when they are wearing a skirt.  So you can imagine my surprise when I saw two people wearing shorts!  I will choose to refrain from critiquing the choice of shorts and shirt of the young gentleman on roller blades.

This is the fashion view we got while we ate our dinner...  My boys were horrified!  Poor Dalton was sitting on the end of the bench...  I don't know how to say, "You need a bigger size" in Russian or I might have passed along that bit of advice to this little pretty.

Misc

Let me draw your attention to the lady in the green shirt.  I want you to notice her hair.  From this distance it looks a bit like a brown haired version of Marge Simpson.  But upon closer examination...

It's a hair accessory.  This poof ball/flower thing is an accessory, the size of her head!  I sat there and imagined what it would feel like to be wearing something on my head that was as large as my head.  Interesting...

This is a lady who sat next to me on the shuttle.  The reason for this picture is because I was wearing a t-shirt, capris, and sandles and I was SWEATING like crazy!!!  What the heck lady!  How these people don't pass out from heat stroke, I will never understand!

This is a picture is a traffic jam we are in.  The funny thing about this picture is the silver car who is driving on the sidewalk because he can't wait his turn!  The best part of this story is, about 2 blocks down, there was a big post in the middle of the sidewalk and he could not get around it.  So, he had to back all the way back down, passing all the cars he thought he was so cleverly passing!  How did that drive of shame feel buddy???

This is our vacuum!  It is so fabulous I can barely stand it!  I almost slept with it but, I was embarrassed Chris would mock me about that.  The embassy had loaned us one and I don't mind telling you that it sucked!  So, thank you Amazon.com for sending us this beautiful baby!  I vacuumed everyday for the first week we had it!  LOVE IT!!

We walked past this construction site and saw these mannequin legs lying around so, we put them up next to the building.  We crack ourselves up!

In each metro, there are huge doors that close on big metal tracks.  It always makes me feel uneasy as I walk past.  I wonder what it would be like to be locked in the metro and then I wonder what it would have to be like up in the world for them to feel like they needed to seal off the metros.  Neither of these options are appealing to me.  So, each time I walk past these doors, I try not to notice them.  But, that really just makes me notice them more!  

This ice rink is inside of a mall...  What?!?

Birthday flowers.  I love the flowers here!

There are no words!  The funniest part for Ethan was that I made a bunch of little kids get off so I could take his picture.