Travelog for: Smith

Today morning we got up at 5 a.m.- very early! It's because we had our bus to Tomsk. Tomsk is another Siberian city- a very old one. It's more than 400 years old. It took us about 5 hours to get there by bus. We like the city very much, because it has beautiful architecture, lots of churches, old wooden houses.







Here I'm in the Garden near river Tom.






And here we are at the Tomsk State University- also a very old one and very beautiful too!


It is surrounded by a beautiful garden. We saw squirrels  there!


And we found two stone ancient idols that were brought from Altai:




Look what a lovely sculpture of a cabbage and a baby! Small children in Russia think that they were found in a cabbage or were brought by a stork ) This sculpture stands near the maternity hospital.










The main street of Tomsk- Lenin's prospect:















On the embankment:


We saw a kite there!


And there were so-o many weddings there


The emblem of Tomsk:


The Tomsk drama theatre:




The funny monument to the famouse Russian writer- Anton Pavlovich Chechov:


We found a very old chemistry in Tomsk. It was build in the 19th century.




The monument to St. Tatiana who  protects studends and helps them in their studies:


We enjoyed our trip very much! What a pitty that we had only one day in Tomsk!

Today we went to the Novosibirsk Zoo. We went there by the children's railway. It's interesting that it's a real railway, only small and only children work there. It's about 5 km long and the train runs with the speed of 10 km/h.















In the zoo we could see many animals like deers, monkeys, tigers and lions, leopards, different bears, etc. The Zoo is very big and it's situated in the pine forrest.






















And this ligr was born from a tiger and a lion. It's a girl and she lives in a cage with a lion.

Today our friend Hector is leaving us and going to his next host Fiona to South Africa. Good bye, Hector! We will miss you very much, but we hope we will meet again soon!

Today we've visited the Air Show in the Airport "Severny".


It was a great show! We could see many planes there, helicopters and parashutists!

Today Elizabeth is going home. We all feel happy for her, but we will miss her very much! Bye dear Elizabeth! I hope we will meet again some day

Today Oksana showed us some very old wooden houses that were built in Novosibirsk at the beginning of the XX century-1901-1908. They still look very nice!

Autumn has come here. It's clowdy and rainy, but today it was rather warm, so we went to the park for a walk. There we found some oaks and gathered acorns:

Today our host Oksana had a meeting in the cafe with her friends who make teddybears. And she took me and Eddy bear with her, so we had a wonderful time- we met many new friends there, chatted much, drank coffee and ate pancakes



















By the way, today is Eddy bear's last day with us, because tomorrow he will leave. He is going to the USA to his next host. Bye, dear Eddy, we will miss you much!!!