Wood Group, ESP picnic

Lee's office had a picnic this past saturday for all the employees. They rented a datcha that was on the river Ob. In the photos above, you will see our driver, Volodia, who drove us part of the way to the picnic, then you will see Igor (and his new boat) who took us the rest of the way to the picnic -- on the water! It was great! There were probably 70 people there. The only problem we had was the gnats....... There were swarms of them. I mean, literally, millions. The things couldn't get enough of us, and kept flying ALL over everyone. When I looked around, I saw that most people were either swatting the air around them with tree branches, spraying insect repellent, or sweating it out by the fire. I chose the latter 2. The repellent didn't seem to help at all, so I decided to hang out by the fire. Although it was in the 90's, and no breeze was in site, I sweat my rear off by the fire---it helped---some. Seriously, I was wondering if they had heard of DEET---I want to bring it back here by the case.