Just another day...continued

First of all, here are pictures to make up for yesterday:

At Repin's Estate

On the way to the beach

According to Austin, "Some very big shoes to fill"

Part of our group at the beach. The old guy that took our picture got his thumb in the way -P

Girl's pic!

 

Yesterday we also visited Lenin's Shalash museum and a barn--both places where he hid out during the revolution.

     Yesterday was quite the day! After all of those places that we went (Which totaled 8 hours) we finally made it back to the university--and it started to rain. Made it back to the apartment and rested for a few hours, and then off to the festival!!!

     I met up with Megan and Austin (two people from our group) and we went down to Palace Square, where it was still raining. Unfortunately one must have special tickets to enter the Square, and they are only given out to graduates and their parents. Fortunately, however, because of my wheeling and dealing, the three of us ended up with tickets that some students didn't need, and we paid less than $9! It was insane at the Square! There were at least seven or eight Russian pop stars there and thousands of people! One plus was that there was no alcohol allowed in the Square, so things were actually calmer there than the other parts of the city. After the concerts it was still raining but we walked down to a special place on the river the was roped off by hundreds of police. From there we watched some amazing fireworks and the sailing of the Scarlett Sails. It was absolutely beautiful.

 

 Not sure yet what I am going to do today. So just another adventure waits around the corner!