Odessa!

Our next October trip was a three-day field trip to Odessa with our art school. It was wonderful! (Even though that's where Will and I got so sick.)

The first day we met up with our group at the bus station and got off to a little bit of a late start, because the bus we were supposed to take was cancelled. We got on the next one, though, and made it to Odessa without any more problems. The kids and their teacher were staying in a Harry Potter themed hostel (they loved that!), so we went there first and dropped off all the luggage. Then we started out to find the opera house and lunch in the basement of it. After lunch, the kids and teacher went to their first painting session in one direction, while Will and I went back in the other direction to get more warm clothes for some of the boys. We met up with them later in the park where they were painting. After I got to paint with them for a while, too, we went for a beautiful walk around the port and then back to the hostel. Bogdan was really too young to be in the group, but someone had cancelled out at the last minute. Because of that, there was an extra space already paid for, and they offered it to him. He decided that he could be brave and sleep without me, so we left him and all of them to cook their dinner and eat, while we went off to our own hostel and our own dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

Beautiful autumn!

Planning their route from lunch to park