Touring Moscow

Today we went down for breakfast at 9:00 AM. After breakfast we all headed out to the Kremlin where we met our tour guide again. We went through tours of all of the cathedrals, including the Church of Assumption which was absolutely beautiful! I also got to see the graves of the pre-Romanov Tsars and the Romanovs up to Peter I. I even saw the grave of Dmitri, the Tsarevitch that Boris Godunov killed.

After a tour of all the churches we went to a Russian bistro for lunch and ha strange meat and mushroom pies. After lunch we walked to the Museum of the Revolution. Tricia and I saw that they sold posters, so we went buck-wild and got excited and ran in, all hyper, pouring over everything, until we realized that everything in the store was an "original" and we couldn't' afford anything except for a few envelopes. Finally, they kicked us out of the store because it was closing.

We went up to look around at the museum for a little while. Then, Ally still had to buy souvenirs, so she, Tricia, Catherine and I all decided to go to the arbat-- a big souvenir place. The Moscow subway is super complicate,d though, and we got lost. We were all hot and tired and cranky and I was hungry. PLUS, we were supposed to meet Dan at 6:30 PM to go to some club and we were pressed for time.

Anyway, we headed back to the dorm without having found it and Ally and Katherine took a nap. I talked to Page and Blakeslee for a while and then to David. David said that he was meeting Dan at the club later, so Tricia and I changed and then went with him to McDonald's for dinner.

It was the first McDonald's in Moscow and was incredibly huge. David was especially pleased with his meal. After dinner we set out for the club, but David got us a little lost and we were walking forever.

It was a pretty fun club, but some annoying nerdy guy with a Princeton Crew t-shirt from Alabama was there and he wanted to come back and hang out in the room with us after the bar. Turns out that the "youth Olympics" were going on in Moscow, a pretty big deal, so the whole city was decked out and there were foreign athletes there in national warm up suits...everywhere!

Anyway, when we came out of the club there were fireworks and I remember that they thundered and clapped against the sky as if they were in my own head. On the way home I stopped and talked to some guy at a Baltika Kiosk. When we got back, we all hung out in Dan's room some more. I passed out in the hall and Tricia woke me up. We both went to sleep.