From Russia with stamps - or Halloween in Berlin

Below is a letter we got yesterday from Russia. It has to be the largest number of stamps on a single letter that I've ever received. Alltogether making an amazing 126.5 roubles! It came registered post and spent some time travelling around Berlin, because although the address was correct (in latin), the name of the receiver (me) was in cyrillic... and because in Germany letters don't get delivered to the address, but to a person, it got sent back with a fatal sticker markng it 'receiver not reached'... but then came the knight in shining armour and on the way back at some post office there happened to be someone (probably one from former East Berlin, where they had to learn Russian at school) who could transliterate my name, and put it in latin letters. Jack had lots of fun though at our post office trying to pick up the letter and proving that he had indeed the same surname in German as the one on the letter in Russian. The content ended up being our receipts from Ural Airlines for the tickets I purchased for us online. I have to say - they're pretty dedicated :)

In other news, on the weekend C&C brought us a pumpkin, that's now waiting to be cooked. It was sitting sadly on our outside windowsil and using Anya's idea I made eyes for it. Now it seems that there's a fifth creature in this household :)