Sunday, January 27, 2008

Charlotte with Sarah Garbade 1-05-08

Sarah came to our house and took us to the South Park mall in Charlotte to try on dresses and fake diamond rings!

We tried on a ton of expensive dresses and had fun! We all tried on those small polka dotted dresses and we are NOT posting the picture because it was scary!! We made Sarah try on a really short green dress that was twice smaller than she needed and she said that we were horrible!

While walking around the mall, we were grabbed by some French hairdressers! They grabbed me and began to straighten my hair explaining how soft and nice it would be! Then he showed us amazing trick with hair straigthener called how to curl your hair with straightener! "Use expensive $200 hair straightener and wrap your hair around it and that's how you get 8 hour curls". Pretty amazing huh?? The guys were just sweet guys with curly dark hair (but no blue eyes LOL) The other girls couldn't understand them, but I could! Maybe because I'm foreign too!!

We went to the Apple store and played with the Apple Touch. I grabbed one and the alarm went off!! I didn't know what to do, so I just stood there. But after standing there for a while, we realized that the alarm goes off alot, so we just ignored it. I even checked my email on it! Cate was pretty embarrassed because it wouldn't let her check her email!

Next, we saw a woman doing makeup, so we decided to have our makeup done. Victoria was first, and while she was getting done up, the rest of us were in the Chevy Malibu taking pictures! I would like to have that car for myself, but no...it didn't happen!! After a while, we were tired of fancy mall so we decided to head on.

South Carolina was only 5 minutes away, so we decided to cross the border and use a restroom stop as an excuse. HEHE!! I've been to SOUTH CAROLINA!!

On the way to the mall, we heard some strange noices. And in a second, we saw a firetruck. So all the cars stopped and there was some dump truck and he just got stuck in the middle of the intersection. Guy was sittting there and he didn't know what to do so he was just sitting there. The firetruck and police men were just driving past him and around him. Poor guy! He just sat in his truck shaking his head! We felt sorry for him, that's why we laughed all the way to the mall!!

On our way back, we sang songs!! We went to Dairy Queen and when we left, we started running to the car for some reason. And there was a lady parked her car near ours, so she just started laughing at us but she was friendly and she waved back when I waved at her. We were ready to go, so Sarah started the car and she was backing up and almost ran over the woman's husband! It was pretty funny!! We all said bye to them and they said bye back!! I liked that family!!

Kilby's New Year's Eve Party

This party was smaller than Wayne Henderson's. It was homey. The owners (Steve and Penny Kilby) of the house had alot of cool old stuff.

I learned how to play the autoharp. And Sarah Garbade taught me how to play the bass!! YAY!! I learned how to play Old Joe Clark and played it with James, who disappeared after a while.

We left around 11 and got home in time to watch the ball drop. All I could think about was Sergey who was in NYC and I thought that maybe I would see him. But I didn't because he wasn't even there because he was ice skating in Rockefeller Center. We saw an awesome couple on TV. The guy asked the girl to marry him when the ball dropped! IT WAS SO AWESOME AND SWEET! We all went AWW!!! But it WAS sweet!!! Gosh!! I missed to twelve last seconds when I needed to make my wish, so I made it after and drank my apple juice.

We stayed up and watched a rerun of the Jay Lenno show on TV. It was really funny, but yeah. So then we went to bed!! Happy 2008!!!

CHRISTMAS 2007

At 2:00 in the morning, me, Catie, and Victoria snuck down stairs with our presents to put them under the tree.

At 7:00 in the morning, James running into our room screaming "Christmas! Christmas!". We went downstairs, had breakfast. Really fast! Because we were too excited about Christmas!

Then we started the great ceremony of opening up Christmas presents. We all got a whole mess of cool amazing presents! Cate got her Ipod and Victoria got her camera. I got a really amazing suitcase because they want me go home. Not really! They got it so I wouldn't have to buy one before I left. I'll really need it!

Then my parents called from Ukraine. My mom was trying to talk normal English to host mom and they were both too excited to understand what the other was saying!

Patti and Marlon came over for Christmas dinner. Marlon got a Christmas cracker set and we played with it. We played the song Jingle Bells together with everyone having one cracker (whistle) and Victoria and Marlon having two because Dad wouldn't help. He was sleeping! HEHE! In the crackers, we got little crowns with musical notes all over them! They were so cute!
We had turkey for dinner and like mom promised, we tried to carve it on the dining room table like in the movies. But it didn't happen because the turkey broke! It was cooked too much.

Catie and I went to babysit Oscar (the doggie) and when we came home, we watched National Treasure. Because the next day we were planning to watch National Treasure 2 in Galax.

So yup! That was my first American Christmas!!

Wayne Henderson's Christmas Party 12-21-07

My family and I were invited to Wayne Henderson's Christmas party by Helen White. I was really excited to be invited there because Wayne is such a famous person in old time music in the Blue Ridge Mountains and around the world. We got to visit his guitar shop where he builds his instruments. In the shop, I got to hear Tina Liza Root pick on her brand new Henderson guitar that she had been waiting for for many years. She had magnetic eyes, I can't explain it. She told me something in Russian and then disappeared. She was amazing!!

I lost my earing in the van on our way there. Victoria stayed at home. The house was full of people playing instruments. In the living room, Doc Watson was picking with Steve Kilby and Wayne Henderson. That was pretty amazing to see!! Marlon and James got to play with them too.

Upstairs were no more stairs. In one of the bedrooms, there were some young guys playing music together. Blake was my favorite. He had long blonde hair that fell across his face in such a hot way that I couldn't help but fall in love with him. He was so cute, but I have a boyfriend and I don't want to cheat on him. There was also a guy named Eddie. Catie loved him and she said he was pretty handsome, but he had ladies hands and she said GROSS! We like big hands that can surround ours and keep them warm. That's what my Sergey has. He is such a cute boy!

Anyway, we stayed and listened to them until 1 AM. We didn't get tired!! I wonder why?? But we needed to go home. So we said bye bye and we never saw them again. I'm not upset, but I still love Blake. HAHA Just Kidding.