Lennins Masoleum
Church of Christ the Saviour
Josh on the lion statues in the church gardens
Train Platform - our train is the blue one - these are the carriages
Mum's standing in front of the engine bit - check out how old it is - lucky we made it.
Today we went our seperate ways in the morning. Josh and I went to Lennins Mausoleum. We where searched and our cameras had to be left in the coat check then we actually saw his embalmed body! Josh and I visited the White and Case Moscow office after lunch then met Mum and Dad at GYM. Inside GYM was this amazing supermarket that sold nice food all seperatly like an the old days! We went in the afternoon to see the cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the origninal church was built 1839 - 1883 to comemorate Russia's vicotry over Napolean. Starlin got rid of all the cathedrals, including this one, and made it into the worlds largest swimming pool, for 50 years! Over 2 years it was re-built and made back into a church for Moscow's 850th Birthday, costing US$350 million. The Frescos inside where beautiful, but again - no photos allowed. In the evening we went for dinner at a local place then caught the night train to St Petersburg. We caught the metro to the train station - with our cases and mum being a first timmer at cases on escalators went to put her case on the escalator in front of her and almost took out undeserving metro riders, until josh intervened. WE made it to the train by dad giving someone a 'golden handshake'. The cabins where cosy to say the least and we arrived in St Petersbug at 7am. The cabins where sleeper cabins and had 4 bunk beds in them - you should have seen the debarcle to get the cases in!
Church of Christ the Saviour
Josh on the lion statues in the church gardens
Train Platform - our train is the blue one - these are the carriages
Mum's standing in front of the engine bit - check out how old it is - lucky we made it.
Today we went our seperate ways in the morning. Josh and I went to Lennins Mausoleum. We where searched and our cameras had to be left in the coat check then we actually saw his embalmed body! Josh and I visited the White and Case Moscow office after lunch then met Mum and Dad at GYM. Inside GYM was this amazing supermarket that sold nice food all seperatly like an the old days! We went in the afternoon to see the cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the origninal church was built 1839 - 1883 to comemorate Russia's vicotry over Napolean. Starlin got rid of all the cathedrals, including this one, and made it into the worlds largest swimming pool, for 50 years! Over 2 years it was re-built and made back into a church for Moscow's 850th Birthday, costing US$350 million. The Frescos inside where beautiful, but again - no photos allowed. In the evening we went for dinner at a local place then caught the night train to St Petersburg. We caught the metro to the train station - with our cases and mum being a first timmer at cases on escalators went to put her case on the escalator in front of her and almost took out undeserving metro riders, until josh intervened. WE made it to the train by dad giving someone a 'golden handshake'. The cabins where cosy to say the least and we arrived in St Petersbug at 7am. The cabins where sleeper cabins and had 4 bunk beds in them - you should have seen the debarcle to get the cases in!
