I heard from Brett today by IM and emails and he is safely in Italy. He had an incredible adventure in Moscow for 4 days and will now be traveling through Italy. My brother Dave served his mission in Padava Italy and is being the tour guide. He has spent alot of time planning so I know the boys will have an incredible trip. Brett thanks for your emails with the updates on all the sites you are seeing. To all my faithful blogging friends I apologize if I am posting everyday but I know that Brett wants to hear and see his girls so I will be showing more videos. I love you Brett!
· After settling in – set off to metro – rode train to Red Square and saw the tomb of unknown soldier, St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. A raincloud caught us by surprise and we ran for the GYM (pronounced GUM) to find something to eat. We ate at McDonalds and returned to the apartment about 9pm.Thursday, June 5th, 2008 – Woke up at 4:30 am –· Left apt by 7am to go to Victory Park. WWII memorial and Arch celebrating Napoleon’s exit from Moscow· Returned to Red Square to tour Lenin’s tomb· Went on boat tour of Moscow – 2 hour ride –saw Bolshoi Theater, 7 Sisters apartment buildings and Soccer stadium.· Cathedral of Christ our Savior & Peter the Great monument (actually was a gift to USA – was Christopher Columbus, but USA didn’t take it and they replaced heads for Peter)· Returned to apartment for 2 hour nap· Returned to Red Square at night – returned to river crossing at 12:16am to find it closed. Walked to nearest road bridge and crossed it and made it back to apartment at about 1am – equivalent to walking on a freeway. · Walked many miles today and my feet are very sore.Friday, June 6th, 2008 - Woke at 7am – exhausted from previous day.· Left apartment about 9am – went to see Hard Rock Café street and passed KGB building. Many vendors on the street and fun things to see. · Returned to the train station to meet Dima, Neuba, & Pasha (Seth’s host family) @ Noon. Walked with them to Statue Park and looked at all the art and had ice cream with them. · Left around 2pm and returned to Red Square to tour the Kremlin. Toured most the cathedrals inside the Kremlin and returned to Apartment about 5pm. · Called it a day and slept for 2 hours; Watched TV for about 2 hours. Sean and Dave slept for 4 hours. Seth returned to host family’s home to collect luggage and visited with Monica.· About 9pm went out to the street and connected to “Adel’s computer” and sent emails with Dave and Sean til about 11 pm. · Went to Anteka (drug store) for supplies.Saturday, June 7th, 2008 – Woke at 5:00am – updated this journal til 6am.· Went out for souvenirs prior to returning to apartment at noon to check out. I got some fun stuff for you all!!!!· Train and bus to airport for 6pm flight to Italy – nice 3 hour trip via train and bus to airport 50 miles away· Arrive in Italy about 9 pm after 4 hour flight (2 hour time change) – we are now only 8 hours ahead of you. It is now midnight (2am Russia time) and wanted to email you. Observations while in Russia: Many people smoke. During our travels it seems many people express no emotion in relation to each other (do not smile or talk and are not reactionary to each other). At night we finally seemed to see people talking and together. Police cars are mostly Mercedes black cars and seem to travel in groups of 2-3 sometimes more. The metro is very convenient and travel times are frequent. Seth did a great job of getting around Russia. We had fun and I have very sore calf muscles and hips and bottoms of feet are tender from the walking. We will hopefully get used to it just in time for Italy.Sunday, June 8th, 2008 – Italy – going to church and then to the Coliseum and the Roman Forum.
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