Arriving in Moscow

WELCOME TO MOSCOW!!!

When we got of the train we all felt absolutely gross because no onehad changed clothes or brushed their teeth or anything. Our tour guide, Larisa, met us at the train station and we got on a bus to the dorm. Oh my God! Her outfit was SO crazy! She was wearing a bright red tea-length skirt, a see-through black sheer shirt with a black silk bra with colored flowers on it, very visible underneath. T hen she had on a giant gaudy metal belt and matching earrings that were so big and long that they grazed her shoulders.

The ride back was pretty. In the middle of the streets (like on Long Island) they have these "parks" called "Boulevards" where the nobility once strolled.

When we got to the dorm, we changed and freshened up. The room arrangements were me and Tricia and then Katherine and Ally were our suite mates. After we dropped off our stuff, we headed out for a tour of Moscow.

The Kremlin was absolutely beautiful-- it was the perfect meeting of the beauty of an ancient fairytale with the strength, power and intensity of the Soviet era. We got to see Lenin's body which was really creepy, shiny and kind of unreal.

After that we went to a souvenir market at Lenin Hills (Oh-- I also saw the graves of Stalin and Brezhnev and stiff...) and I bought a lot of the gifts I needed to get for people. Then we went back to the dorm for lunch and then a group of us went back to the market.

It was really muggy out and a long walk from the metro station the market and Ally, Tricia and I were tired. I finished all of the gifts I had to get and then Ally and I caught a ride back to the metro station and home from there.

That night we all assembled to go to a Georgian restaurant right near the dorm. It was good... we had kabobs and some kind of cheese bread and braised vegetables and wine. After dinner we went out and bought some drinks... vodka, vodka, vodka! and hung out in Dan's room for a few hours.