A View from our Apartment

Tuesday & Wednesday, May 16 & 17

We stayed in the apartment both days and the kids worked on their “office/fort” on our balcony. We went to the market on Wed. to get a few grocery items and Stella a pair of shoes. We noticed her shoes were too small and she needed a bigger pair. Fortunately the grocery market also has a mini-mall above it where you can get other things like shoes, notebooks, makeup, and many other items.

Not much happened of interest. We continue to have great lunches and dinners each day made for us upstairs in Marina’s apartment by her cook, Illena. We had heard before we traveled to Kaz that the meals were really good and families were gaining weight here and we believe it. The food has been fantastic to say the least. We have lunch at 1:00 and dinner at 6:00 each day. We have very traditional Kaz dishes and they are so very good. We have lots of salad type dishes, not with lettuce, but with many fresh veggies like cut tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, sliced beets with mayo is also something we have almost every day. We have had a great dumpling type dish with meat inside that was moocho deliciouso, different pastries with meat inside, a great meat cake looking dish that looked like a layered cake that had about 8 thin layers of meat patties with sauce and other stuff layered between each layer, it was very very good. The kids both love sliced tomatoes and cucumbers which we have at almost every meal. Sasha in particular will eat an entire plateful in nothing flat. They love bread too and Stella must be watched to make sure she does not fill up on it alone. We also have soup every day. Many different kinds, most have different meat and veggies, some meatballs or chicken. We also have a lot of cut up chicken on the bone in a stew type style or cut up beef ribs or diced pork mixed with a sauce and other small veggies. We always leave stuffed. Well, Garrett always leaves stuffed and the rest of us are very satisfied. We would love to have the recipes for some of the many dishes we have had. This is a nice perk for being with Marina as our coordinator in Kaz. Other families who are with other coordinators must fend for themselves for meals, either cooking or going out, we are very blessed.