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12/30/2004: "Brrrr"
Today we went down to Lenin Square during the afternoon to check out the ice sculptures and do a bit of souvenier shopping.
The ice sculptures are really cool and they have *a lot* of them. They do them all over the city not just in the big square. The kids park has a wall of ice like a castle wall going all around the park. We took a bunch of pictures of the sculptures in the square. I'll post some of the digital ones here in a few minutes (we have a bunch on film too we'll see after we get back to the US).
It was pretty cold out but we were dressed for it so we didn't get cold other than noses and cheeks getting rosy. I was almost too warm actually (crystal of course wasn't too warm). After that we came back and tried to make tiramisu (spelling?) but ended up with tiramisoup as the cream cheese is much softer or kind of whipped so it didn't set correctly. They tried to fix it using starch but realized that they were using potato starch and not corn starch so it added an odd taste to it. We all tried it and the lady fingers were good but the soup we mostly passed on. We ended the night with another round of hand and foot (the other couples are liking that a lot). For the third night in a row Leigh and Alicia kicked but staging yet another big comeback.
Tomorrow we have planned to watch all 5 star wars movies! We'll see if we can get through them all in one day.
Both couples with kids in Komsomolsk found out they will be able to get their kids on the 6th the day after us so happy news for them as well as that is also sooner than they expected.
Well off to bed for us now just got to post the pictures quick.
Adam
