YAKOV

Last Thursday morning, we spent a delightful two hours, laughing, at Yakov's wonderful humor about Russia and the U.S. I'm sure you'll remember his favorite phrase, "What a country!" He has a very nice theater on top of one of the mountains.

Most of the show was about Christmas, but my favorite part was when Yakov pretended to be the President. He was hilarious!

During the intermission, he posed for pictures. Don walked up to get a close-up, and I didn't look at the pictures until I put them on the computer. I was surprised to see the two gals from Texas that we talked to at Silver Dollar City on Wednesday morning. Mulert was his usual alert self-he didn't even recognize them!

Everyone was surprised when the dancing snowman took off his head and it was Yakov.

After the show, he goes out in the lobby and signs autographs. I took this picture because it shows an example of his beautiful artwork. I ended up buying a sweatshirt of this one. His creations are all over the place, and worth taking time to see. Notice-each one has a little hanging seat on it in the right hand lower corner with the artist signing it.

A trip to the bathroom held one last laugh. In each stall is a self portrait-you can pull the little curtain if you don't want him to watch! What a guy!