My mom and I are true warriors. Not only have we mastered the Moscow metro but we mastered the Russian alphabet.
We somehow managed to drag our butts out my door and walk to the metro at 5:00 in the morning after only a couple hours of sleep, navigate the metro which fails to provide any signs with familiar characters of the english alphabet (we even had to change trains), and then find our train to St. Petersburg.
It was such an adventure and I feel so accomplished.
There is just something about getting on some sort of transportation that moves at a very fast pace away from what your every day life consists of. It's like freedom is becoming more visible and palpable and the weight of responsibility and the standard daily occurrences slough off the further and further you travel.
So you must imagine that I am feeling pretty darn good right now being all the way at the Baltic Sea.
Here are just a few pictures of our adventure in St. Petersburg today in the -40 degree fahrenheit weather.
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| Our gorgeous hotel! |
