Moscow...yea

Our hotel came with matching shower caps.


D: Just as enchanting as it was seventeen years ago. This is what I was looking forward to the entire trip. Now, four days left. Yea.

B: Check another off my list of "places to see before I die." Red Square is not as big as I thought it would be or as it looks like on television. I'm finding that's true about a lot of things in life, but more on the Mao picture later.


B: We wanted some sushi pretty badly, so we found a decent place just off Red Square. We ordered a big sake, but turns out that a big Russian sake is a lot larger than a big American sake.

D: "I ain't sharin'!"


D: This is what we looked like after our big Russian sake. I told Bill not to pee in the pitcher!


B: The one thing Moscow has on New York: its subway system. It costs less than 50 cents to ride anywhere, you never wait more than three minutes for a train and the stations look like museums.

D: This subway station was supposed to be turned into a palace for royalty.


D: Each subway has its own story. This has a mosaic theme. All were very beautiful. Moreso than some of the museums we visited.


D: What is everyone looking at?


D: The changing of the guard was something in itself. These guys walked with such valor. They only change the guard at certain times of the day. We were lucky enough, standing in the hot sun for about twenty minutes, to get a front row view. Every single move was precise. You can hear the soliders coming about thirty feet away with gun in tow. It was amazing. Once we are able to upload video we have the entire five minutes on the blog.





They guard the tomb of the unknown solider.





D: "Hey ya'll! I'm from Texas!"





D: We came, we saw, we conquered Lenin's Tomb.

B: It's really cold and quiet down there.

BnD: HE IS REAL!!!! HE IS NOT MADE OF WAX!!!

Three more days till we're on our way out of Russia. Now what?


Stalin and a bunch of other Soviet leaders and heros are buried along the Kremlin wall behind Lenin's tomb.





D: I remember the story told to me was that Ivan the Terrible wanted a cathedral so grand that he would get it at any cost. Once St. Basil's was built it was the most beauiful ever created. To ensure that the creator could not ever build anything so grand ever again, Ivan had his eyes spooned out.


Climbing inside the church.

















You still see a lot of Lenin in Russia today.


D: This place...hmmmmmm. What can I say? I might have gotten food poisoning here? But damn was it good!!!!!!!! Russians do buffets a little bit different. Instead of paying for all you can eat, you pay by the plate full. So whatever you can get on your plate in one trip is all you get. So Bill went for a test rounds. It was not bad. So I get about five pounds, no kidding, of these beef tips and about three pounds of this coleslaw. Best coleslaw ever, even coming from the south. I left Bill in the dust eating everything on mine and his plate. It was not until about two days later I felt the rath of the "all-you-can-load-on-your-plate" buffet. Dang though, I think we would eat it right now.

B: It's true everybody. D has a great bod, but she can really put it away when she wants to.


Moscow was a blur.





B: This picture was taken after another round of sushi. We had it our first and last night in town.

D: Maybe this is were I got the Delhi Belly. Hey, free dinner is worth a belly ache sometimes. Ask us about that later too.