Day 1 - Lawrence
After we arrived, we settled into an apartment in the city - we got to bed about 1am. We are on the top (8th) floor and very lucky that the new elevator had just been installed since we had 5 checked bags at 40 lbs each (see Mary's earlier post). The next morning, the elevator was out of service (possibly due to our overloading it) and we had to walk down and up the whole way. The elevator was workign again by that night - a good thing as we had to leave on the 20th at 545am to take a flight to Uralsk. I did not want to have to carry all the bags down the stairs. One round trip exhausted me and it would take three to do all the bags.
The picture here is Almaty in the morning from our apartment. The city seems quite cosmopolitan. It's at an altitude of about 2850ft and as you can seee has prominent mountains which rise over 7000 feet ASL. We find the city very reminiscent of Colorado Springs.
posted by Lawrence @ 8:00 AM
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