From Russia with Love

So this has to be quick. I apologize as much has happened, however since most of Moscow is WiFied there are no internet cafes around that we know of, now we miss not having a book of lies to blame everything on. Stop wasting time on to the good stuff. The train ride all 2.5 days of it went by in no time, hard to say it but it was true. Before we relized it we were here. We had three sets of passagers and they got better as time went along. We crossed into Russia in the middle of the night in some sort of sereal scene from a movie or something. That night we didn't get to sleep till 2am. Our last guest in our bunk (we were there the longest) Dennis has been nice enough to show us many sights around Moscow with his girlfriend Senya. Senya's sister dances for the Royal Russia Ballet, so we got to see her perform in Romeo and Juilet last night, which was an amazing ballet. Other than that Red Square is amazingly beautiful with St. Basil's at one end, and so on and so on. Sara's turn.

Ok i got 12 minutes exactly before the computer goes off. Basically Moscow is GREAT!!! So far best city we have been in. It is amazing huge, but yet everything makes sense and not chaotic. Red square is big, nice, and basically st.basil's looks like a giant candy and i want to eat it eveytime i go here. Also i think i will get Married in Moscow in Red Square in the Winter time! How magical!!!! ( Tyson has no comment on this at all!) Who says i need him to be there? Just kidding... Also i am liking the lipton flavored white and mint ice teas.. are they there yet in Canada? Pretty much the greatest thing EVER! Besides moscow.. i want to buy everything.. EVERYTHING.. and yet Tysons reminds me that we still have to survive 5 weeks of living on low funds.. :(.

Somehow our computer just added 9 minutes!?!? yippy!! So a little more detail. After we arrived and Dennis helped us get into the massive underground (well over 100 stations) and we went down ther craziest steepest longest escilator ever that went down so deep, we found our hotel. (SCAREIEST Esalator EVER.. i totally got vertigo and if one person fell on that thing.. there would be a domino effect for at least 5 minutes!!!.. Sara) Not quite but that gets the point across. That evening Dennis meet us and drove us down to Red Square, but before getting into Red Square we went into GUM this giant mall with a 3 story tall Adidas store that Sara fell in love with, so that is why she doesn't need me... anyways after that Red Square and then sushi for dinner. Then they drove us home. The next day we meet the travel agent lady by the man on horse statue, also by the monkeys, eagles, and men dressed up like Lenin and Nicholus the second, where we got our train ticket to St. Petersburg. Then off to St. Basils, like a candy, and the State historic museum 2 floors, 40 rooms and only till 1900... Then to The Church of our Saviour Jesus. Lenin is asleep or something, as the mosumel (sp?) has been closed with no sign saying when or if it will reopen, not that it would help as it would be in Russian. Then to Peter the Great Statue, and inbetween that we ate McDonalds. The busiest MCDonalds ever...

Then we met Dennis for the ballet.. we had an hour to kill before going to the theater.. but we were so tired from walking all day that we just sat by the world globe fountain that tells the time of each country when the sun is setting. OR something like that.. anwyays the ballet was splendid. Really good.. not just dancing, but acting while dancing.. very good. Sword fight was the best between Mercuito(spelling?) and the other guy (forgot his name)... romeo and juliet by the way.. it was 1 hour and 45 minutes long, with a intermission break. We really enjoyed it. After that we drove to the biggest university that i have ever seen.. Moscow University.. which is on this hill that overlooks moscow city.. very cool.. but we were still very tired and it was 11 o clock by this point.. they also have street racing here.. and we saw a ferrari but not there.. during the day. Then we went home becuase i was pretty much falling asleep walking.. we are not use to going all day and all night.. not really our style of travelling. Sorry anne! haha.

Today we got up.. but tyson was mad that i changed "plans" which really if anyone knows me i dont "do" plans... i do tentative scheduales!!!!!! You think he would know that after almost 3 years of dating!! Anyways we had a little tiff.. no biggies.. all limbs still attached. Anyways we went shopping in this huge tourist place that tyson kind of got irritated with afterawhile.. but i liked shopping it took us about 4 hours to find the perfect russian nesting doll. You need to find the one with the best painting, and the best painting that goes all the way to the tinest one, and lets just say we saw every booth at least once, and worked our way down to the bestest of the best from there, that took a while. We also found a package of old propaganda posters the ones we've been taking photos of everywhere. They aren't original, but still super cool in our opinion. Sara says good for teaching, and Henry we'll let you photocopy them if you want. Other than that we walked for over an hour to get to the restruant 2.5 minutes from our hotel (our hotel is the former Olympic village from 1980) and enjoyed a great home cooking style meal.

Tomorrow the modern history museum (1900-2000) and some walking in old Moscow. Monday to the Kremlin and that night at midnight we're off to St. Petersburg. We'll probably won't write till then.

Tyson and Sara