From Russia with Love!

 A few months ago, my daughter and her family took a trip to visit their missionary in Irkutsk, Russia.

If you are like me, you need a map to see where Irkutsk is....

 It was a wonder to get updates from them through texts-we were 12 hours apart 

so had to coordinate communication so we could have conversations!

 Today, I received a package of souvenirs;

my daughter had saved them because we were supposed to take a trip to Georgia to see them

last month but I wasn't feeling well enough to travel.,

But look at this yarn!!!!

At the open air market, they met an older women who spun yarn 

from her own little flock of Kaza--nanny goats literally. 

 It feels like mohair but oh, so soft!

 I mean, look at that halo!

The wool is single ply-I can't wait to swatch this!

 Bill was gifted socks made of camel fiber--the man selling them reminded Marsel of her Dad!

(Loud and telling corny jokes to the market shoppers!)

After trying them on, he left them on the floor where Nyki promptly killed them 

and then laid on them.

 After she walked away, Lena moved in for her turn.  She took a few tentative sniffs, jumped and then settled down for a nap!