On the Canals

Today was pretty lazy. Katherine and Ally woke me up at 2:00 PM. I thought that I had missed lunch, but luckily it was "bag lunch" and mine was in the fridge.

We decided to go to the Summer Gardens and Mars Field because there wasn't really enough time for any museums. We got off the metro at Gostiny Dvor and first wen to the Hotel Grand Europe to exchange money at the Amex office, but it was closed. Then we started walking up the Griboedova Canal (towards "Spilled Blood") and I noticed that it was such a beautiful day out. So, I asked them if they wanted to do one of the water taxis around the canals. (There are SO many of them!)

They agreed, so we did that, up the Griboedova, around down the Moika, across on the Kryukoval canal and back up Griboedova. The whole thing was beautiful and took about an hour.

After that, it was already 5:30 PM, so we wanted to eat quick and cheap and get home to do homework. The best (and safest!) choice was McDonald's on Bolshaya Marskaya Street (one street further down on Nevsky than Moika-- parallel to the Pizza Hut). Anyway, we ate (yum, yum!) and headed home where after doing homework, I have been writing in this journal FOREVER!

(It's 11:10 PM and I think I'm finally caught up and I think I'm going to read some more Crime and Punishment.)

(PS: Russian women LOVE fluorescent pink lipstick. PPS: Katherine lost her shoe on the trolley bus today.)