Valaam Morning

Happy Fourth!!

I forgot to mention that last night I found a piano on the boat and played for hours. The only problem is that there were some stowaways and people who paid cheap for tickets who were going to sleep in the piano lounge, so I had to boot it out around midnight.

Anyway, Dan woke us up at 7:00 AM and I hardly rolled out of bed five minutes before breakfast. Breakfast was some weird tasteless rice thing and I was so out of it so early, but they were playing Brian Adams in the dining room. The waitress was weird and made Ally and me take home some strange packaged jelly back to the room with us.

Anyway, after breakfast we all headed out to explore the island. It was so beautiful and green and we had perfect weather with streaming sun. But the mosquitoes were unnaturally large and cruel and I got hot after a while. Besides, I didn't feel that great.

Anyway, I bought a beautiful blue and silver ring and earring set from the vendor and a Nicholas II icon.

At 1:30 PM we headed back to the boat for lunch, which was gross fish soup and some inedible (uncooked?) gray lump of meat. The potatoes were okay though. Thank god we had all brought "Sac-lunches."

After lunch we were all kind of tired so we went back to the boat to read for awhile. Before you knew it, I was asleep (as were all four of us shortly) and I didn't wake up until 8:00 PM for dinner which was slightly better.

At 9:00 PM we left Valaam (so much for that.). The night was fun though and we stayed up late partying for the holiday. I think I went to bed around 3:00 AM or 4:00 AM.