Finally getting out and about

Well, first off we finally have Internet access at home!  Only a month long process to get all the I's crossed and the T's dotted... So now we have no excuse for slacking on the blog postings, unless we're just slacking.  Lets see last week we took a tour of interesting sights within walking distance of the Embassy.  Our tour guide was awesome and showed us a lot of great places and told us a lot about the local history and about famous Russians that lived in the area.  Considering that the city of Moscow is over 700 years old, and I suck at history I'm not even going to try to recount the Who's and When.  But I will just leave you with the photo's of the beautiful buildings, and oddities that we came across while trotting around.  I will put a few pictures in the blog here, but the bulk (and I mean BULK) of the pictures are on our Picasa web album and I'll throw a link here at the end.

 

This is one of the Seven Sisters.  There were supposed to be 8 but the last one has not even broken ground.  This is Stalin era building, and the picture does not do it justice.  The sheer size and detail of the building is amazing.

This is a shrine to Michael Jackson.  There's even a Star in the sidewalk for him.

This is one of my favorite pictures and it's an example of, "If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!"  Many Moscovites didn't have cars 25 years ago.  Driving was for the well to do and important.  So the roads were not designed for the volume of traffic that exists today.  And parking well the sidewalks are very wide so they've become the parking lot for many buildings.

The album has lots of pictures from this tour.  We did tour a museum of some famous Russian, but I have not idea of who he was.  The craftsmanship of the house is just awesome. 
PICASA Album "Around the Embassy".

Well enjoy and we'll be writing soon.