Crimea is the peninsula in Ukraine that sticks out into the Black Sea. Long known for its restorative health properties, due to the fresh sea air and fresh water, it is home to a number of sanitoriums (no, not for crazy people - like 19th century spas.) Due to a happy coincidence, I was in Simferopol for a Friday and Saturday conference for defense attorneys (on land law, and all in Ukrainian, so you can imagine how much I got out of it!) But it was the perfect excuse to invite Aaron and the girls down Saturday night, to celebrate the May Day holidays, since Monday and Tuesday were days off. Their flight down, already scheduled to get in at the ungodly hour of 11 PM, was delayed for ridiculous reasons, and they didnt' arrive until 1 AM. Poor kids! Thankfully, Simferopol airport is pretty small, to say the least, (the baggage claim is outside - it's a wall that you can walk around, that has a donut shaped baggage carousel - pretty funny!) and it was a domestic flight. As a result, I was able to sweet-talk myself past the guards and out on to the tarmac to get in the plane and help Aaorn off-load sleeping kids. Try that in America!
Anyway, On Sunday morning we had a lovely (?) breakfast at my hotel - which was definitely not a spa. And then we walked across the street to the Botanical Gardens. They had been busily planting of the May Day holidays and it was beautiful. They do take their flowers seriously here, I tell you.
And here is my dear husband, practicing his Ukrainian woman super-cheesy pose.
Don't look behind you - there's a killer pigeon, which kept following us around, even though we had no food!
Super-stroller - built to withstand the squirming of not one, but two children! Unfortunately, the kid on the bottom was not so designed...
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