Day 2

entrance 

Presidental Park 

fall colors

Dear Readers,

The second day was half filled with business and Almaty sight seeing with my grandma and aunt. I have my own apartment here in Almaty, and when I turned 18 I had a choice to stay in America or to go back and I would have my apartment. But I decided to stay in America. Oh, boy!  I know that wasn't grammatically correct, you see for the past two day's I've been confused majorly between two languages. I'm still in the Eussian (half russian half english). So if I misspell or say something funny, that's because I'm completely blanking on how to say it. :D So anyways, I had to sign papers to give the apartment ownership to my grandmother. After we were done with that we drove around, since it was slightly raining here we couldn't do anything outside. My aunt took us to a Mini-Bazzar. I absolutely love those. Here we don't have packaged food in boxes that are frozen and processed,  you don't even know if the blueberries are real or just sugar colored corn syrup, which is a fact I found out today, in all those muffins and cereals.  So the Bazzar is like a Farmer's Market, fresh fruit and meat and all kinds of goodies are there to buy. Then we visited another church near by,  Orthadox. There where my day was made even happier. My grandma whispered in my ear "God loves me." & "He loves everyone." I don't know what that means but I was too happy to hear her speak of God so openly without me asking. Praise be to God! Thank you Dear Jesus!

Later in the afternoon we went to a huge park called "The Presidential Park" it was founded by the president Nasarbaev. It was very beautiful especially all the fall trees; I've been feeling as though I'm in a book. Where all the pages are filled with those yellow and orange colors of fall. Where the leaves fall on the ground as the wind blows. Where your cheeks turn pink and the sound in the distance of a Mag-Pi (big black and grey bird) singing is heard. There was a wedding there and the couple were dancing in the soft rain. There was a the biggest fountain I've ever seen!  In KZ after it rains mushrooms pop up everywhere from the ground so you can see people walking around in the grass collecting mushrooms. So neat! You can smell the mushrooms. Don't worry they are the safe kind, as my dad gave me a concerned look. :) Oh! The funniest thing about my grandma. She love walking with my dad. My dad doesn't speak Russian, but my grandma insists on speaking to him in Russian. She would be walking and chatting away about the weather and asking him questions. I think it's hilarious, so funny. My dad just nods and smiles. I think she likes him. Well here are some pictures:

{the church we were at}

{the bazaar}

{That's all Foundtain, from where I'm standing it's even bigger, it's not on during winter}