Hair Cut Expedition

Eating the mushroom pastry

The Mushroom Pastry Store

C getting his hair cut.

The salon was between the pharmacy on the left and the Moped store on the right.

All three boys (R,M and C) were looking pretty shaggy, they all had hair cuts before we left the states BUT that was two months ago today!  There is a barber shop or salon in the bottom floor of our building and we were going to make that Saturday, 30 March's project. . . but that still left the challenge of communicating with the person cutting the hair, how short, how much to take off, and  how much does it cost.  Tuesday  R came home from work with his hair cut, he said he was talking to his translator E about words and phrases we'd need to accomplish the project and she found him a place near his office and accompanied him.  His hair looked good and only cost the equivalent of US$15.  So, Thursday afternoon she made another appointment for M and C and we headed toward Belorusskaya Metro Station to meet R and E at the office.    C NEEDED a snack as we arrived a couple of minutes early, so he enjoyed a mushroom pastry as we waited. We walked to the hair salon and C and M got haircuts.  The hairdresser was smitten when C told her "Spasibo" and we avoided an international incident when R quickly communicated to M NOT to jam his ballcap back onto his head after she spent all that time washing, cutting, product"ing" and blow drying his hair :)  All in all it was a successful outing.  And my three boys don't look like they have bushes growing on their heads anymore!  Maybe next time I can just have E schedule the appointments, I think I can handle the rest. . .