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Tbilisi Doll Museum

Today we went to the dolls museum and saw lots of old dolls, puppets, paintings, drawings/sketches and things that belonged to the doll's sets like tea party sets made out of china.

 The dolls that we saw were made out of lots of different things like ivory, clay, cement, metal/wire, old news paper, wood, lace, glass, paint, material and musical instruments.




The countries that the dolls and other exhibits belonged to were French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Canadian and American Indian.

All of the dolls that were there are all so beautiful and it must of taken them months even years to make them. My favourite dolls were the women with the dove of peace, the piano player Eliso, the ruins of Ikalto acadamy, the man in the boat, Desdemona, the satin lady and the conventionalised Georgian dolls.







I had a great experience learning about ancient dolls.  

The Mountains

2 weeks ago we went to the mountains with Bacho and George friends of  Dad's from rugby. It was a 6 hour drive from where we live in Tbilisi. It was hard for Georges 4 wheel drive to get over the skinny rocky roads, that were on the sides of the mountains. There was fresh water coming down on the side of the roads so when we came up to it we got a car wash. Dad called it the mountain car wash.

Drinking from the fresh water spring on the side of the road.

When we got to the mountain's, we saw that what we were staying in was not a hotel. It was a big old wooden shack that looked like it was about to fall down on top of us! But when we got inside it wasn't as bad as the outside. The old lady (Bacho told us to call here granny) was starting to make the beds in the room that we chose. So while she was making the beds, Lily and I started to unpack our things. We put all our drawing stuff in a cupboard and went outside to play. Mum and Dad told us to come around the back for lunch. Granny was already making lunch inside a little old wooden cabin. Mum and Dad were sitting down at a big long table eating some hot bread. Granddad came out and started making something. When he had finished, we saw that it was a little swing. Lunch was meat, soup, salad and kachapuri. After lunch, Lily and I went inside to do some drawing and then played gymnastics outside. That night for dinner, everybody was at the table underneath the wooden awning. There was lots and lots of beer, wine and cha cha.   We watched a movie when Mum and Dad were still eating dinner. When the storm came everybody went back to their cabins or rooms. That was my first day in the mountains!

Granny and Granddads cabin and kitchen on the
the right,  dining cabin on the left

1.   Bread dough
2.  Granny rolling out bread
3.  Bread all in a row
4.  Shaping bread dough
5.  One bread in the Georgian oven
6.  Lily patting on her bread into hot oven
7.  Granny getting cooked bread
8.  Lily holding her hot bread
9.  The bread cooking shack