St.Petersburg

Its 11:40 pm and the Sun is still shinging bright in St.Petersburg. The light and the mosquitos can make it hard to sleep at night. A few beers helps with that though. Since I last wrote I have seen the Kremlin, Red Square, and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Unfortunately though, I did not get to see Lenin's Mausoleum, Vladmir's or John's. Dagger! But I did get to see alot of Moscow. Moscow is a huge place filled with people. Every building there was at least a NY city block long, no joke. There werent many sky scrapers in the middle of the city so the sky line was filled more with Churchs tops, apartment buildings and an occasional Stalin sky scrapers. I met a guy names Jeff in hostel on the first night. He is a UCLA student studying Russian literature and spoke Russian. He was my saving grace. He helped me use the metro, order food, and get a ticket to St.Petersburg. All in all he was a pretty cool guy.

We took the 2:30 am train from Moscow to St.Petersburg to here. We ended up hanging around the train statin for some two hours before hand just to make sure we got there on time. That was a site to say the least. There is no open container law in Moscow or St.Petersburg so everyone is drinking and just milling around. I saw some drunk get escorted to where ever it is the police take you when you're drunk. The train itself was comfortable but small. The swaying helped me sleep.

Since we arrived I have been milled around St.Peterburg. I've seen the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Resurrection of Christ Church . Which was probably one of the most beautiful churchs I've seen. Then I saw the Russian Museum also. Which was interesting but short. Russia also has a lot of beautiful gardens Ive been enjoying too. Tomorrow I'll go see the Hermatage, an art museum, and then take a boat around the city.

On Tuesday, Ill take a flight out to go visit Laurence my exiled friend. He has been hanging out in Prague for the past few days and is fine. We are going to meet in our hostel in Vienna, which I look forward to.

This computer is pretty slow so Ill save the photo upload for another time.