Kalmikya

Slept a long time Thursday morning! Got up and ate breakfast/lunch, watched a movie and rested (Russians are very big on resting all the time!) and then went to "Chess City" where they have many, many chess tournaments (I guess if I played chess more I would know that). The chess hall was closed so we when to see the temple (The biggest buddhist temple in Europe) which was also closed so we just took pictures of the outside. There is a little park not far from there where everyone meets that we went to where we bought carmel popcorn and cotton candy (The cotton candy is only 20 rubles here which equals about 70 cents!) after walking around the park and taking, of course, more pictures we walked back to Valya's house where we were met with more food (Another things that Russians are big on!) We ate and then Valya's friend Toma (Artome) and her cousin Zoola came over and we all played cards (Plus her brother) until four in the morning, which really isn't that bad considering that it was only eight o'clock at night in America!
Today we went to the Museum of Kalmikya and learning about how they all came from Mongola and went to a small market. For now we are just resting (Again!) and later we will go to Toma's house where we will have Shashliki (Shish kebabs) and play soccer.
Tomorrow we are going to a surprise from Valya's grandmother and uncle.

~Abby and Cassie