Ul's birthday bash!

All kinds of people came out to celebrate our darling Ul's birthday--as they should!

Dasha D, Ul, Matya

Tusya Bulycheva, Ul, Nastia Kisse

?, Evgeni Malkin, Ruben Begunts, Ul

Kisa, Tusya, Ul, Sasha Patskevitch & boyfriend

Sasha Patskevitch & Ul

Ul & Dasha D

?, Ul, Karolina, Egor

Ul opening her present from Dasha D & Sasha Radulov

Donechka, Ul

Ul, Sasha Radulov, Ruben, Dasha D, Yulia G, Egor

Front: Artem Lyalin, ?, Ul, Karolina, Egor; Back: Yulia G, Dasha D, Matya, Kisa, Tusya

Yulia G, Egor, Sasha Radulov, Vitaly Fridzon, Zhenya Telysheva, ?, Ruben, Ul, Maxim Goncharov

Here are some collages...

Sadly, the group girls couldn't make it out because they're stuck in training.  But the really shocking absence was that of Ul's partner-in-crime/Siamese twin/BFF--Makar!!  UNACCEPTABLE!!  (Well, okay, maayyybe she had a good excuse, but we'll get to that in the next post.)
And here are some photos of the people at the party other than with Ul:

Donechka & Matya

Matya & Dasha D

Everyone had to take a photo with Evgeni Malkin!

Tusya, Evgeni, Kisa

Evgeni & Dasha D

Defying gravity!

*WARNING* Do not try this at home!  :P

Natasha Bulycheva

O_O is all I can say!!  Tusya & Kisa both did these crazy balances in the hallway:

It seems like a popular thing to do--here's a photo of Di Borisova doing the same!

WOW!

Kisses from Kisse!

Well, this will have to serve as a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY post for Anastasia Kisse, who turned 18 on July 27!  (Oops!)

She's another cutie!

Happy belated birthday!

Technically she competes for Bulgaria, but she trains at Novogorsk, so she's an honorary member of Team Russia....

Tusya Bulycheva & Kisse sporting Team Russia jackets

...and gets to go on vacation (to Croatia) with them.

Ksyu & Kisse

Kisse is besties with Tusya (Natalia Bulycheva)!

The height difference is really cute..

Kisa & Tusya have matching tank-tops!

She's also very fond of Dasha D.

And true to her name, Kisse seems to be a serial smoocher, planting kisses on all the girls...

Kisse & Dasha D

Ksyu & Kisse

Kisse & Makar

Kisse & Makar

Anna Trubnikova & Kisse

Kisse & Yana Kudryavtseva

Zhenya & Kisse

Dasha K & Kisse

...and her pets!

Kisse wrestles Ksyu to the ground...

...and other crazy things that happened in Croatia!
Looks like Nastia Kisse got a little too excited when she ran into our resident cutie-pie giantess!  And despite the fact that Ksyu is one of the tallest girls--if not the tallest girl--there now, she totally falls to the floor right away!  Don't count on Ksyu to defend you if you get mugged, that's for sure!  ;)  (That's Rita at the end with Ksyu, by the way.)
And here's a video from the cutie herself--Ksyu, Nazar, Masha, ? and Yana K sending their greetings!

And here some more random pics:

"Kisa & Tusya" (Nastia Kisse & Natasha Bulycheva)

Nazar & Ralina Rakipova

Rita

Rita, ?, Masha, Yana K, Yulia Bravikova

  Even Son Yeon-jae is there!

From Russia...with love for USA??

Well, I've written about the girls' fondness for Yankees caps...but it seems that they are also partial to the USA flag as well!

Makar, for instance, has a USA shirt...

...as well as a pair of USA flag shorts

Blizia & Makar

And the other girls have caps and t-shirts..

Anastasia Kisse

Ul

Ul & Makar