A Day in Ekatringburg

WE took out walking this morning at 10:30. First a word about their time table around here. breakfast is around 9-10. Then lunch 2-3, then dinner 8. We are back to the sun going down around 10:30. We went to a Geology museum and our host was a very funny Russian. We were in this small run down space, since everything in this town is underconstruction. He showed us the precious stones that are found in the Urals.Citrin is a beautiful light green stones that can only be found here. Mylicate and ememerals are two other green stones found in abundance here. I have some ideas on what I think about scienctist in russia, We'll have to have this discussion when I get home. We walked to lunch and this across town to the Regional nature museum of the Urals. I do have to say, I've been to every museum for every area of Russia we have been to. I took some kool photos of animals for you Drew. We were then met by two ladies who took us on a long walk to a school. They were with Open World( the same group we met with several weeks ago in another city) We toured this 7-17 year old school. They wore us out telling us about all their awards. Then it was crazy all the sudden they said let's go and we took off on a two mile dead run to another meeting. This one was with about 30 educators at the public libary. It was very informative and they were excited to have American vistors. We exchanged ideas. We then walked another two miles to this internet. I took some aleve about an hour ago and hope I can make it back to the hotel. We are up and out to the train at 8 am in the morning. WE have a 24 hour train ride to Moscow. We will then ride a bus another two hours to Ryazaan. This is were Lela and Sasha are from. We are excited to get to meet their daughter and see where they teach. We are going to their dacha(summer house) and her mom is going to cook for us. I may not be able to connect with you guys for a few days. Love to all. We have all turned our thoughts toward home and look forward to giving you all a big hug.