- waited in line in the 10 degree weather for an art museum for 40 minutes, before deciding we couldn't take the cold any more and we'd just come back Monday (but I did get to see the coolest shoe invention I've ever seen - high heeled snow boots (pictured))
- finally dined at the famed Samovar where the taste of the blinis and tea is almost as delightful as the price
- washed my clothes by hand in the sink and dried them on the radiator - more fun than you might expect, I kind of felt like the mother in that scene in Willy Wonka
- bought my first bottle of champagne from the grocery store and didn't drink it
- had one too many of the one dollar cherry cough syrup flavored shots at fidel's and paid for it the next morning
Overall, it was a pretty sweet weekend. Today's been a pretty lazy day, just doing homework and writing emails and such at the hotel, but I was talking to Lexie today and we basically decided that you can never have a boring day here. Everywhere you go and everything you do is so completely different from life at home that even washing your clothes has its fun points. Still to come (hopefully soon): tales of my transition into life with a host family!
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