Cold Summer

It never gets dark there, so weird. I spoke some Russian but it didn't go over so well. I've always heard that if you speak of the native language in the country that you're in, the native speakers will "appreciate it." There was uh... none of that. Sometimes, people would sigh and roll their eyes at me. That's mostly how commerce in Russia seemed to run anyway, a lot of sighs and some aggressive yelling.

But who cares about attitude: It was beautiful! We were only there for one full day and stayed in the city center so the architecture that we saw was mostly mammoth palace-like buildings. Here are some cases in point:

I have to go now but I love you all and I'll post more later.