10,000 Sparkling Rooms

Today was Katherine's birthday. Class was as usual, with Poly Sci too. After class, we ate lunch quickly and all piled into a bus to go to the Yusupov Palace. I LOVED IT!!! It is one of my favorites. There was a beautiful theater and ten thousand sparkling rooms and I know that I had seen it...

Anyway, after that, because the palace is sort of near the Marinsky, we decided to go back on the tram, the same way as we had figured out the day before. The only problem was that we took the wrong tram and ended up somewhere along the Fontanka. (Me, Ally, Katherine and Tricia).

We eventually found our way back to Sennaya Ploschad and made our way, once more, through the slimy crowd. The metro was hot and incredibly crowded. By the time we got home it had taken us an hour and a half. Plus, we rushed because we thought we missed dinner, but it turns out that there was no dinner that night.

Anyway, Ally and I walked across to "Marta" to buy Katherine a cake and were hit on by some African students (in Russian). When we got back, we changed and did homework and then left with Tricia, Ally, David, Katherine and Melissa to go to McDonald's. We saw some guys from CT there.

We were looking for a good dance club-- this back-alley, rowdy place called "Honey Money." When we finally got there at 11:00 PM, the place was being emptied out because of a brawl. We walked along Nevsky for a really long time looking for something else to do and we finally ended up back at "Molley's." We headed home at 2:00 AM-- just in time for the bridges.

When we got back, we had cake and champagne in Dan's room and finally fell asleep around 4:00 AM.