brunch at a random blini fast food place
yum...
Jeff's a little...tired still
all snazzy for Victory Day (may 9)
walking around the streets of Petersburg
St. Isaac's Cathedral
another view
random intersection
all the buildings look like this one
waiting for Irina to buy tickets
typical streetlight complete with "do not yield" sign, crosswalk sign, pedestrian countdown to doom clock, and arrow indicating you shouldn't drive on the sidewalk.
inside St. Isaac's Cathedral
(sorry, out of focus)
still in the cathedral
the artist painted the dome top so that the perspective looked normal when you're looking up at it, pretty crazy
beautiful green and blue stone columns
the detail in the ceiling was just amazing
this kind of thing isn't even exceptional in the cathedral, just a typical wall decoration
views from the colonnade
crazy spiral staircase
heading back down
they counted down the stairs you had left, it was some 200 stairs, we almost died coming up
nice grassy park area outside St. Isaac's cathedral
bright pink stretch hummer. what is the world coming to?
random statue
happiness is: ice cream bar on a sunny day walking around St. Petersburg
outside the Hermitage
area that reminded me of Red Square, only St. Petersburg style
random horse-and-buggies
strange bicycles came through just at that moment
horses
the courtyard entrance to the Hermitage
Hermitage poster (interesting that in Russian there's no "h")
another courtyard view
inside the Hermitage
dear russia, WHERE IS MY TACO BELL???
outside Kazan Cathedral (the one where they were having the service; sadly it didn't seem okay to take pictures inside)
boat tour tunnel
freezing on a boat tour
is there a name for when the sun does this? makes two little rainbowy arc things on either side? it was really cool looking
the bag I bought in Moscow recently
our sketchy hotel room (Celina and I were together)
lovely view out the window
OMG TROLLEYBUS!
yes!
heading to the Savior on Spilled Blood church
it looks like a boxy St. Basil's Cathedral from the outside
playground through a fence
inside the church - everything is mosaic
and I didn't have a picture pass so this is the last one I got away with taking
crossing a canal
at the market
the KGB lighter/knife combo that Nick bought
waiting for Irina and Celina to finish buying jewelry
SUBWAY!!
best lunch ever
in Petergof, entering the palace/garden grounds
(all of these are in these huge gardens)
Irina and a lion
Gulf of Finland!
my foot
surfing...?
there's Soviet Russia for you
back in St. Petersburg
at the pub/restaurant
playing with Irina's chess set that she bought for a friend
random chocolate museum car
it actually got (mostly) dark by about midnight!
Kazan Cathedral at night
Gasprom, which basically is the reason Russia exists
the train compartment (Dima's looking in to Irina)
my bed was the bottom right, on the train over I was on the top left, bottom is definitely the way to go
view of the other guys' compartment from outside
back in Moscow
the train platform
