Botanical bonanza

Tuesday July 12, 2016

Today we had the best day ever in the Botanical Gardens even though we had to take a trolleybus and a normal bus to get there. It was really annoying doing that because there were flies that always landed on us and it smelled. The bus was better because it didn't smell and drove faster. Getting of the Bus was easy, but then, we had to walk to the destination which was 170 meters away! Oh My God! Okay, to tell the truth it was an extremely short walk. While we were walking Isabella found a frog and i caught it for her and then I let it go. I did this a couple of times in the Botanical Gardens. When we got to the Botanical Gardens, Grandma bought our tickets and we went into the Gardens. I also forgot to mention that there were five of us at the Gardens, Sasha (Alexandra), Isabella, Grandma and Inga. I was there too, of course! After that we went to a Chinese themed pond. On the way there I was telling the girls that a fearsome creature lived at the bottom of the pond and was sleeping, so if you threw even the smallest rock into the lake the creature would awaken and eat you. I told them that the only thing that the creature ate was children and many had disappeared in the neighboring villages. Isabella believed and was freaking out, but Sasha didn't so she stayed calm. Soon we got to the pond and took some pictures. Some of them are shown below:

After we took the pictures, we sat down and ate and pastry each.
Then we talked about food. After that, we took off again. We saw
an arch made of wood. At the arch we turned right and went deep

into the uncharted forest. Okay not so deep. We came out into a clearing where we saw many giant snails. Grandma and I wanted to collect them for supper, but the others didn't let us. After that we went into the forest and there was a wooden sculpture just sitting in the air. So cool! We saw another pond which had ducks in it and they swam to us wanting to get fed but we didn't have any food. We walked on and came to another pond and then a river. The bridge that went across the
 river was covered in crochet flowers. Then the girls
ran to a waterfall that they spotted ahead, yet Grandma,
 Inga and I stayed back and admired the flowers that
grew there. We took some pictures in the flowers and
in the huge wooden apple that was in the middle of a
field. We walked on and spotted some ripe apples,
which we picked and ate. Sooner or later we came
 to a field of Lilies. They where beautiful, gorgeous,
 and I have no words that are powerful enough to describe it. Going on with the blog now. We went on one of the paths and came to a restaurant. Since we were starving we ordered a great amount of food. We ordered two soups, one Russian burger, two batches of pancakes with strawberry jam and two salads. The soups and salads were for Grandma and Inga, the pancakes were for the girls, and the burger was for me. The girls didn't even finish their second pancakes when they declared that they weren't hungry. They went outside to play on the playground and soon came back again because they were still hungry. When we were done, we payed and then we went to the Gardens again. We found a little house made of vines and played in it for a while. Then we found a path and went down it. We stopped at a bush which was a black currant bush. Quickly we stuffed as many currants as we could into our mouths. then we left. We saw another pond with a strange chair. We sat in it and the girls almost started sleeping on me. Then all of us sat down on a bench. Two ducks came to us and we fed them apples. Then we went to a tree-house. Soon we left and saw another sculpture. Then we had ice cream and went to a gallery. Later at about 4:00, we left the Botanical Gardens and sat on a bus, then on another one. Soon we got to my Great-Grandma's house and had dinner. Later Dad, Sasha, Isabella and I walked home and Grandma stayed with Inga to buy my Great-Grandma a sofa.