The Day I Touched my Marble Staircase

Today our language class was extra short because we had the art history class. I forgot to mention that it was the same way yesterday too, for the politics class.

Anyway, after class I ate lunch and then sent an email to my mom. Katherine, Ally, Tricia and I all had plans to go to the Hermitage and Katherine was getting annoyed that Ally and Tricia were taking a long time on their email. Oh yeah-- David came with us too. We took the express bus to Lesnaya because it was already 3:00 PM. Then we took the metro to Gostiny Dvor. We walked the rest of the way to the Winter Palace. And there it was... PALACE SQUARE! And the day I touched my marble staircase.

There's more about all that in my other journal. The Hermitage is an absolutely magnificent museum though and I can't believe much of what I saw. We left the museum when it closed at 6:00 PM and went to go see Lolita at a Kino on the Nevsky, not far from the palace.

The movie theater was in a beautiful room that looked as if it had been a part of an old mansion. After the movie, we walked around a while looking for a suitable cafe, and when we finally went in we had a really hard time ordering. I had roast chicken and potatoes. Finally, at around 11:30 PM we headed home. We bumped into Blakeslee in the rain, at Lesnaya waiting for the trolley. Finally, we arrived home around midnight and hung out writing postcards etc. for a while.