Red Square

Salut tout le monde!

Well, took the Moscow metro for the first time today! Stéphanie and the girls had already taken it by themselves this week while I was at work. Wow! There are some beautiful stations! We rode the metro to Red Square. I tell ya, seeing St-Basil's cathedral peeking as you are rounding the corner is a moment I'll remember forever! There were a lot of people on the square! Also, they are setting it up for parades that will take place at the end of august! We then went for a stroll in the GUM mall which is directly off of Red Square. Wow! The place is huge! We found a little restaurant where we sampled some blinis (yum!) and also a baked potato that was out of this world (well, okay, maybe not out of this world, but definitely out of Canada). ;-) We then proceeded to make our way home (I'm not feeling too too great...started having a sore throat after we got here, but I think I'm feeling better now).

We have tasted some pretty incredible products. Russian yogurt is amazing! So is Russian bread. I drank some Kvas (also known as Children's beer) which definitely was refreshing today!

My first week of work in Russia flew by! Woah! Which is fine by moi! I just can't wait to have our own internet connection (hopefully next week) so then we can post more pictures. Currently, we are relying on our kind neighbors for sharing their internet connection. As the bandwidth is not great, we have been strolling to the AAS (the girls' school) to upload pictures as the school has free wi-fi. I know a lot of you have asked for more pictures. As soon as we can, we'll post some more! Promise!

Okay, I'll end it here for now and chat with you all later!

;-) LIL