![New York Snow Day](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4014/4347080068_978175eb0c_z.jpg)
Hello my friends near and far! I'm so sorry for not updating for over a month. Things have been really busy around here with lots of schoolwork. However, I have an adventure planned to share with you as soon as I finish these memory posts! This one is for 2010 and 2011, very exciting years!
2010
![Marina, Princess of Queens](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4019/4445950643_8be002997d_z.jpg)
Here I am in Spring 2010 playing on the stoop of my our old apartment building. We ended up moving in summer 2010 to the apartment where we currently live. I love our new place but sometimes I miss the stoop and park near our old apartment!
![Inky in the Rain](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2780/4473542739_649c66b9a3_z.jpg)
Spring 2010 had a lot of rain, but I didn't mind because I had a new raincoat!
![Inky's Easter 2010](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4040/4491706857_aba8b1dfcf_z.jpg)
For our last Easter in our old apartment, I made special Russian egg carriers! They were so cute. I also received an Easter basket and dressed up in a dress- bleh!
![Picnic in Flushing Meadows Park](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4041/4496163064_d2b856aec7_z.jpg)
That Spring was so fun! During hanami, or cherry blossom viewing, my family had a picnic in the park and I climbed a cherry tree. That year, we also celebrated the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. You can see the mascots of the games on my tee in this picture.
![Inky's Zakumi shirt](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4062/4684078228_e315e66bff_z.jpg)
2010 was a big year for sports! As my family was moving, the 2010 FIFA World Cup went on. My parents got me a Zakumi (he was the mascot of the event) tee and I pretended to be a champion soccer player. I was rooting for the Netherlands in the final and was pretty bummed when they lost to Spain!
![P7304453](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4114/4850621480_eb9e479ab2_z.jpg)
My best friend, Violet, came to visit me that summer. We had a great time playing on Fire Island. We got my parents to let us stay until sunset and climbed up on a lifeguard chair to watch the sun go down.
![Celebrating International Red Panda Day!](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4103/5172981342_19d403d1f3_z.jpg)
Of course Violet and I had to celebrate International Red Panda Day! Red Pandas are my absolute, all-time favorite animal. We worked very hard to make a cool red panda mask.
![Twenty-three](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1414/5133816568_0b4cab1d7d_z.jpg)
Just before Violet left to home to Utah, our friend Sophie came to visit from France! We all worked together to make an awesome jack o'lantern for Halloween.
![Three](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4125/5202504689_b97df4f6cc_z.jpg)
I celebrated my 11th birthday with an Uglydoll party. My mama made me an Ice Bat cake- wasn't it awesome?
2011
![Central Park with Maiki](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5125/5341058861_4163da3615_z.jpg)
2011 was a great year too. It started off with meeting a dear friend I know from the internet. Her name is Maiki and she lives in Hawaii! She was in town to do a hula demonstration. She's a great dancer! We really enjoyed meeting each other. One of my dreams is to visit her in Hawaii.
![stinkyinkyandsewerpipes](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5275/5816283938_b45bbc13a4_z.jpg)
In the spring, I went to Utah to visit a dear friend of mine- Piper! We had so much fun together.
![Fourteen](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6122/5975732292_3ab5f069c7_z.jpg)
I went on a very, very special trip in the summer of 2011, to Ukraine! I visited my great-grandma in Sevastopol. This photo is of me playing on a beach on the Black Sea. It's so beautiful there. Sevastopol is on the Crimean peninsula. I'm very, very lucky to have gotten to go there!
![Thirty Two](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6142/6034053720_6427198f9d_z.jpg)
This is me playing by the fountains in Shevchenko Gardens in Kharkov, Ukraine. Kharkov is my favorite, favorite city in the world! I had a great time spending a few weeks with my family there.
![Cape Cod 2011](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6206/6081299561_17f6ed8e12_z.jpg)
When we got back from Ukraine, my family took a trip to one of our favorite places in the United States- Cape Cod! I love playing on the beach! It was so different from the beach in Sevastopol. I don't know which I liked better!
![IMG_2683](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6205/6111037859_f6bcdf7d21_z.jpg)
Maiki came back to NYC over Labor Day weekend and we went hiking at Jamaica Bay. This was also a special hike because the very next year, Hurricane Sandy did a lot of damage to the pond there.
![Sixteen](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6051/6262223910_a4e4dcd3e1_z.jpg)
I traveled so much in 2011! In October, I got to go visit my grandma, Mama's mama, in New Mexico! We explored Chaco Canyon. Chaco Canyon is very special to my mama's family and her ancestors.
![Two](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6415542235_2dd09ccb2a_z.jpg)
I celebrated my birthday in November with my friends! Here I am with Coral, Sonali, Nell, and Ksenia!
![Inky at the Nutcracker](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6524220437_8312822f78_z.jpg)
My family has lots of traditions. One of them is that I always wear a pretty dress in December and go with my moms to see the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center. Here I am in my silver dress in the promenade seeing the NYC Ballet!
And that was 2010 and 2011. Whoa! I did so much in only two years. I'll be back soon with a peek at 2012 and 2013.
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