Day 8 - July 5, 2018; Zoo, Ogród zoologiczny, Зоопарк

Today it was so hot! So hot, that we barely got to doing anything at all. First, Grandpa called an uber to take us all, except for Dad, to the zoo. There, we got tickets and promptly went inside. It was very hot, and humid, too. I was annoyed at the amount of annoying school kids there. They were all yelling and getting in the way. My favorite animals were zebras, and four elephants, and some donkeys, and hunting birds. The donkeys were really cute because it was too hot for them, so they were rolling on the ground and scratching their backs, sending up puffs of dust. Actually, fun fact; during the war, the zoo was still running, mostly due to the fact that the ruling Nazis left it open in exchange for the pigs they grew to feed the army. Also, during the war, due to the shortage of food, city dwellers ate the animals in the zoo. 

After a while, we got so hot walking in the zoo, Grandma offered to get everyone a scoop of ice cream. I got mango sorbet, while Isabella got chocolate ice cream. She regretted it immediately. See, she always gets chocolate or Oreo ice cream because she thinks it looks cool, but she doesn’t really like it that much. Later, Grandpa called an uber again to take us home. We were two and a half kilometers away from home. We ate lunch and stayed home, waiting for the heat to cool down.

After it got cooler, we decided to go to a sculpture park Grandma found on the internet. Again, we called an Uber to bring us there. Grandma did not know where to go, so I had to turn on my navigation to get to the park. It was OK. 

The main feature of the park was a big loop around a grassy area, coupled with statues every fifteen feet, and a massive, Greek style two story exhibit museum.  The statues ranged from profiles of famous writers and philosophers to  modern works of art. After we finished touring the sculptures, we tried to get to another side of the park by going down some steps. Unfortunately, they led nowhere, so we had to take the long way to the other side of the park. There, we played on a playground and got an uber to take us to Dad. 

We ate dinner in a Georgian cuisine. It was so good! I had spicy lamb soup, Isabella had meatballs, Grandma had an egg hachapuri, Grandpa had spicy meat, and Dad had amazing walnut flavored sauce covered meat. 

After dinner, Dad, Isabella, and I walked to the old city. We went into a rainbow  🍭 candy shop. Flavors of every kind! You name it; they had coke, papaya, cappuccino, caramel, and even chestnut. Then we walked home. On the way, Grandpa called me because he couldn’t open the front door. It malfunctions. And that’s how this day went down in history; July 5, 2018.