Klyazma River

The Klyazma River is everywhere. We crossed it six dozen times on our trip to Suzdal. Zig took his first dip in the Klyazma with some friends today.

It was a hot day, but the water was mighty cold so they kept going in and coming back out to warm up and play with bugs. On the way home we parked our bikes and indulged in some ice cream. Fun times!

Creativity

Zig got creative while I slept in this morning:

He used gouache paints to put flames and other cool stuff on some of his favorite cars. I was so excited until I discovered (several hours later) that he had cleaned his brush on his bath towel. But that's minor collateral damage.

Here's Zig's commentary:

"The company of all the cars is Ziggy.com/hotrod_painting" (He made that up, so don't click it!)

Suzdal

Random

Here's Zig and his second cousin Alina beating up on Arsen's cousin David. They were racing around making noise and he was trying to calm them down. Fat chance.
Here's Zig and his second cousin Dima posing with the lovely Armine, the wife of Arsen's cousin from Yerevan.
And here's a giant snail Zig discovered on a nature walk in the woods:

Kremlin

Masha and I took the boys to the Kremlin last Friday. We didn't go in - just played in the park outside the walls, ate ice cream, had dinner at a very nice restaurant, checked out a playground and met up with the boys' dads for the ride home.

Random

The batteries in my camera are dead again. Zig and I had a long conversation about batteries. Made me remember a song he used to sing - "Double A batteries, double A batteries, power, power, DOUBLE A BATTERIES!"

So since the camera is out of commission, here is a picture by Yurets, a man who knows his way around a camera much better than I do: