So, Paul and I hop on the bus to go to Mega mall to meet Sonia and Klaudia and see a Van Gogh “multimedia” exhibit there. Paul and I got there early and went into IKEA to get him a mattress cover. The mattress on the bed in his apartment is so dirty, he is getting sinus infections from all the dust. We find one and then walk over to the Van Gogh exhibit. Sonia and Klaudia show up. Klaudia is German, works for a German agency here and drove her car here from Germany. Very daring.
We buy our tickets for the exhibit and go in. It consists of multiple screens and a lot of beanbag chairs. Von Gogh paintings are projected on the screens, nice music is playing in the background, and every once in awhile a voice comes on and explains something about VAn Gogh in Russian. Sonia and Paul dozed off. It was actually very relaxing. We sat through it twice.
We left the exhibit and were thinking of getting something to eat when Klaudia explained that she had gotten a flat tire on her 22-year-old Opel when she pulled into the parking lot. Can we help her change it? We can! We go outside, pull everything we need out of the trunk, Paul jacks up the car, and I hold my handy dandy bicycle light, which I always carry with me, so that Paul can see what he’s doing. Paul tries to take the lug nuts off and the lug wrench is the wrong size. Car down and off the jack, everything back in the trunk, walk back into the Obi store at the shopping mall to buy the right-sized lug wrench. Lug wrench bought, back outside, car jacked up, bicycle light held (I considered myself tech support.), old tire off, new tire on. And this all in below-freezing temperatures. back into the mall to a tea place where Klaudia treated us all for the assistance. Actually, we had lots of fun laughing and talking about the tire and life in Russia in general.
Sonia, Paul and I took the bus back home and I studied a little bit of Russian. Now it’s time to call it quits.
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