The Best Day of My Summer

Ate French toast with friends (only after beating the cinnamon sticks with a end of a rolling pin to get "ground" cinnamon...but hey, at least the had cinnamon in Ak Dovurak!)

Packed up the van and head to Tuva's western mountain pass
Drove in the Sayan Mountains for an hour and a half
Stopped at the pass and climbed a hill that looks out over a beautiful valley (there wasn't even much wind! They say you usually can't even stand up straight when you get out of your car there because of the wind)Drove back into the Taiga (forest) to have a picnic before collecting pine-cones

Found tons of wild blueberries!

Enjoyed bologna sandwiches and homemade chocolate chip cookiesPicked two 1-gal jars of blueberriesCollected a gunny-sack full of pine-conesFinished just before getting rained onDrove back to the Alash River and set up a camp fire (it only rained while we were in the car :) )
Roasted and ate pine-nuts AND S'MORES (using marshmallows I got in a package from the US)Headed back home where we ended the night with some Dutch Blitz (AND I won :) )

All in all it was one of those days when its easy to praise the Lord for His creation, goodness and love!