On Monday we went on a tour around Moscow, and boy is it vast. Our tour guide took us to a graveyard, Red Square, and the highest point in Moscow overlooking the Moscow River. While on our tour the guide, (insert Russian name for woman here), always told us that everything is so expensive and school should be free. She was 60 some years old. That just screams out COMMUNIST!!! She said she "used" to be one. Old habits die hard.
Anyways.......the next day we got to go into the Kremlin and visited the Armory. All the boys went in expecting tanks and missiles. We could not be anymore wrong. There were carriages, gowns, a couple "Fraberge" eggs (not as many as Mom wanted), and gold plates and such. We all came out disappointed. then we walked over to what we call "Church Town." There were 9 churches within a square mile. Mom seemed to be in Heaven, churches inside a castle/fortress.
I am writing this in the airport just moments before we take off for our flight back to Vienna. After a week in Russia we are happy to be heading home (well our temporary home that is).
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