It's OK to eat gold snowflakes.

I had a flaky tongue earlier and boy was it good. Well, not that good but tasty still. Before you start thinking that I got overly adventurous and tried some traditional Siberian food, it was just a pastry from the shop around the corner. It is a rectangular puff pastry with sugar crystals on the top. Not tons of flavor, but good and cheap. The name translates to flaky tongue and when I asked for them I asked for 2 tongues basically. The first word in the name was easier to say than both of them. 

The day was rainy and cold so not many people wandering around outside. We met Oxsana at noon and she took us to a shopping mall thing near the California Pizza. We had seen the building but didn't know what it was. It is similar to some 'older' style shopping areas we have seen, where it isn't built as separate stores like a regular shopping center. It was a large 3 story building where there were vendors everywhere in semi-permanent stations. It was laid out well with walkways around the floors, but it was still odd. They had lots of different things so Heather and I will head back there to see if there is anything else. We didn't get to the market because of the rain. She dropped us off at the hotel and we had to figure out what to do for lunch. It was a late lunch so we just went to the patio place again. It was close and the temperature was around 40 degrees outside, we could see our breath. Maybe we need to buy Baby Boy more than just a hat. We'll get one of the big snowsuits that we saw at the kid's store.

We both got the chicken and mashed potatoes again. It really is good and better than getting pizza. We are trying to get different things so we have a little more variety. We got a fresh batch of the mashed potatoes and I tried to tell Heather that it wasn't a pool of butter sitting on top of them. It was just condensation that looked yellow in the light. Yeah, well they tasted good anyway. At dinner I tried the apple perog at the California Pizza place. It had a short crust like a tart or something. The inside was made up of diced apple pie filling, but it tasted too apple-y. Lots of green apple flavor. It was still tasty but maybe a little too much apple. The top crust was kind of neat, made up of lots of circles of the dough layered on and baked. The perog came with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.

We stopped by the pastry shop and got the tongues and nothing else. I want to get some more donuts. The ones we got yesterday were a peach filling and tasted good - fresh donuts, yum. I want to try and figure out what another one might have for a filling that we would want. I might have to take my dictionary there to translate on the spot.

We have switched cereals yet again. The honey nut Cheerios got a little old so we tried Gold Snowflakes by Nestle. I guess it is their version of Frosted Flakes but I don't know what the Gold is for. They also have Gold Cornflakes, etc. so maybe everything is Gold. They are a little thicker than Frosted Flakes but taste good and are not as sugary as the Kosmostars. I think the Kosmostars were screwing up our blood sugar or something.

So, orphanage visit tomorrow! Only a few more days until we get him, then less than 2 weeks until we come home. Time is going by pretty quickly. I will miss the city some, walking around everywhere, seeing the pretty fountains and tulips everywhere. The tulips are starting to bloom so hopefully we will get some sun and we can take some pictures of them. I certainly don't mind coming home. We will go out to shop more if it is nice out. The weather is supposed to remain about 40 degrees the rest of the week with a 50% chance of snow on Friday! Great!