Springbreak!

Its hard to believe half of the semester is over, it seems like just yesterday I was pulling my overly packed bags in my dorm room for the first time. Spring break starts with a weekend trip to Moscow, then to Prague and then to Bratislava. I will have Internet access, but I wont be able to post any pictures until I get back because I'm not bringing my laptop. Well I will post more about that when I get back. he last excursion we went on was to Pavlov's palace, here are some of the pictures.

Notice the bear looking dog in the background


Snow covered palace..as usual

more snow

Lovely celling

This painting was taken by the Nazis during WW2, damage can be seen on it in the middle.

Pink Chandelier!

Me with the dinning room display



Ok, well thats all for now, wish me luck on my trip!

Long time no entries...

Its been a long time since my last entry. Its a combination of me being very busy and reluctant to upload my pictures that is the culprit. So lets see...last time I wrote was about the Pushkin Palace so there is quite a bit of catching up to do.

Political Science Museum

One of Castro's berets




 Former Soviet Union map

Sputnik!

Yuspolf Palace (where Rasputin was murdered)

lovely room

Officers (obvisously wax figures) waited in this room above the basement where Rasptuin was. (sorry it is so dark)



The basement, the story goes that the wine and cakes were poisoned, but it took no affect on him.



Door rasputin used to enter the premise..yeah I know...


Just me



Concert Hall where we saw A Midsummers Night Dream (Opera not the play)




Here is a picture of my stocked western goodies that my mother sent me, it took three weeks to get here...not too bad considering some of the stories I've heard. (By the way almost all of this stuff has been eaten :) )



Russians seem to like to take there wedding photos in historic cites



More to come soon, hopefully not as long as a delay as there was last time. Well enjoy the photos and thank you for reading.