Events of the week

Let’s go back to Sunday. I was invited to Claudia’s for dinner because her parents were coming from Germany for a visit. They were going to bring two kilos of asparagus with them and we were going to have a great sparkle dinner. The parents arrived late Saturday night....the suitcases didn’t. The asparagus was in one of the suitcases. We ended up having a homemade thistle soup which was delicious. We broke up early because Claudia had to run back out to the airport and get the suitcases which were supposed to be on a late plane. She drove out...and got one of the two suitcases. Aeroflot had no idea were the other one was. So her dad had his meds and things, her mom had to go clothes shopping because she still had nothing.
Monday Dmitry and I had coffee as usual and walked through the park. Tuesday was a holiday. I took  a boat ride with Claudia and her parents up the Volga to Sviazhsk monastery.  I had been there in winter and fall before, but never in summer and never by boat. They have built a. Ew archaeological museum on the island which is absolutely wonderful . It was very informative and info was even given in English. This is something I would visit again. It was so interesting.
But the best part was the boat ride back. The tables on the boat were already filling up when we got on. There was a table with only one lady at it and we asked if we could join her. It turns out she was a tour guide who had just given a tour on the island. She started talking to us and gave us a 2.5 hour lecture on the history of Sviazhsk and Kazan. This lady was amazing. I learned so much about Kazan’s history on that trip.
We got back at 5:30 and I headed straight over to Paul’s because we wanted to do a movie night. We ended up watching “Snowden”. That was an interesting and disturbing film.
Today we had our end of year picnic with the parents and kids. Everyone had a good time. We tried to get the kids to sing a couple of songs but they were so excited that they were bouncing off the walls. Kazym’s mom did a science experiment for us at the end and the kids loved that. When it was over, we 4 adults from the class just had to chill out with a cup of tea. We were all exhausted.
Now I’m home and started to get sick again. We had two kids sick to day with fevers and more than one has a runny. One. Now I’m fighting off a cold.