Day #2 More Moscow

We started the day off by eating a good hearty breakfast: cheese sandwhiches.

Then we went to a museum in Moscow. Also known as a gallery. It was full of paintings. I took this picture of a beautiful chandalier and they said in Russian something like that I was not supposed to take pictures there. BOO!This is leaving the museum. It's okay to take pictures where you put your coat on. As awesome as the museum was I was still trying to adjust to the time change so I kept going to different parts of the gallery and falling asleep. NO GOOD but don't worry, we still saw lots.

We walked around Moscow which was awesome to see all of the different buildings and the city. Then we arrived back at Red Square. This time to enter the wall that surrounds that Kremlin and see that the inside is like. I loved the wall because I felt like it was really one of those olden day castles surrounded by the huge wall that you always hear about in fairy tales - which it was!Next we saw: Tsar Cannon and Bell – two cases in point refuting the old adage ‘bigger is better’, the Tsar Cannon and Bell are as impressive as they are useless. The 40-tonne cannon, designed to add meat to the Kremlin’s defensive fire-power, never fired shot, and the 202-tonne bell never rang on account of an 11-tonne chunk falling off during the cooling period of its construction. HAHA! But I saw them! ;^)


We went to a National Park which was pretty awesome! It was BEAUTIFUL and I can only imagine how breathtaking it would be in the summer time. There was a forest behind this river that we hiked through (and up) to a lookout point. The city was beautiful and I am glad that we did it at night just to see the lights and all.

I wanted to walk on the ice of the river but if you look at the picture above, apparently it was not frozen enough for that! BOO!

Red Square, Moscow Russia

This is what I have decided to do instead of work today. LOL. No good. But I decided to write a little bit about Russia. The first place that we went to well the first day was Sunday, so we went to church but the following day we went to Red Square. It was AMAZING!!! I love it! Here is a little about it from Wikipedia:

"Red Square is the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitay-gorod. As major streets of Moscow radiate from here in all directions, being promoted to major highways outside the city, the Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and of all Russia."

Here is a little of what we saw there:The State Historical Museum.St. Basil's Cathedral. It was beautiful inside. Floor to entire ceiling and back down was hand painted so ornately. I can't imagine the time it took them to do it. It was incredible and every hallway and room was different, unique, and just amazing.The mall on Red Square.The church of the trinity in Nikitniki: The view of buildings of the square walking into the mall:

It was so fun to learn about the history of Russia while I was there. I have never been much of a history buff but it was so facinating. There is definitely something to say about being somewhere sparking interest to learn about it! There will be more to come, as for now, I better go back to work!