As I mentioned many times in my previous posts, my daughter Janna and my parents returned from the Black Sea where they spent two weeks in a resort town of Anapa. During their stay they went to many excursions, including one to the neighbouring town of Gelendzhik, also a very popular Russian resort. There they went to a safari park and to the main city park. On the photos taken in the latter I saw marvelous samples of landscape design.
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Janna’s friendship with dinos has long history – even when she was much younger than now, books about these prehistoric reptiles were among her most desired gifts.
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To continue the series of posts about Janna’s adventures with various cute creatures in Anapa, I’ll introduce you today to Roza the horse, Varya the monkey and Zaichik the camel (the name “Zaichik” actually means “little hare”, so you can see that the owners of the camel have a sense of humour ).
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This post is continuing the series of postings devoted to Janna’s visit to Anapa this year. Unfortunately I don’t know the names of these birdies or if they have any, but I know that she met the parrot on the beach of Anapa and the ostrich in the safari park in Gelendzhik (another resort town nearby)
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To those who don’t know, Janna is my daughter, and Gena is a crocodile named after a popular Russian cartoon character.
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Women – even geeks like myself – like changing their image from time to time. So the plait you can see in the image below no longer exists.
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And no, I don’t mean the dance, but the amusement ride by that same name available in our city park.
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That’s the last movie we saw together – Alex, Janna and I. It happened last Sunday. After buying the tickets, we had an hour and a half to wait before the film would begin, so we went to a cafe to eat some ice cream and then took a walk in a nearby park.
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Today we visited an exhibition where anyone could enjoy watching tropical butterflies flying around. Usually museums exhibit dead butterflies – beautiful, for sure, but isn’t it a pity that they had to die to please us? This one was different.

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Our family visits to the cinema are becoming a new tradition, or so it looks. Yesterday, when Janna insisted that she and Dad would go watch “How to Train Your Dragon”, I thought I’d send the two of them and stay alone at home blogging or reading. But Alex said no. He wanted it to be a family night, and so I went.
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