Saturday, in the Park!
Hi Friends,
Well, our sightseeing days are coming to an end as we will be starting language study this week but today we had a chance to visit Saritsena, the estate of Catherine the Great. It went unfinished during her lifetime and wasn’t completed until years after her death. It is a great place to take a leisurely stroll around the grounds. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out and it was around eighty degrees. A perfect day!
Please be thinking of us as we start the long process of learning the Russian language.
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Walk to the castle, you can see the top of it in the distance
Violet was ready to get out of her stroller
Catherine's House
No idea who these guys are, but they must have been important
We could have gone in... but we didn't
A really big fountain!
For our Pennsylvania Friends…
We found Dunkin Donuts! Yes, believe it or not, a DD opened up in downtown Moscow recently. It’s the first and only one in this part of the world I think! The design of the store is modern and caters to the teen/college age Muscovites – no old guys drinking coffee here! We probably won’t make it their often because it’s not very close to where we live but it was cool to see. Enjoy the pics!
Thanks for reading!
Russia runs on Dunkin!
In line for donuts!
Bring your friends, it's the place to be!
On an unrelated note - Nice park job!
Grocery Overload
Today I was able to go shopping with a friend here who has her own car. The place is called Ashan, and it is a huge grocery/everything else store. Its kinda like a Super Walmart except way bigger, can you imagine that? The grocery part was just so large and overwhelming. There were sooo many people there, it was easier to leave your cart at the end of an aisle to go find what you need then come back to it. We were in need of some start up items for our kitchen, so this was the perfect place to go. I wanted to snap a picture with out looking like a silly American so I did it really quick for everyone to just get a glimpse of what it looked like.
craziness
I made a lot of good finds, of course with the help of my friend who is an expert here now, so I thought you might be interested to see what some of them look like.
Milk - pretty much the biggest container of it
Baking Powder
Vanilla - yes, in packets. No liquid goodness here.
Mustard
Can you guess?... its Mayo! They do have tubs, but this was easier to get.
And of course we gotta have Coffee!
Two interesting things about the grocery store as of right now, the spices come mostly in packets. It doesn’t seem very economical because you’re only getting this tiny amount in each packet. And in the produce section, after you pick out what you want you have to get it bagged and weighed before you move on to another part of the store. Not sure quite why yet, maybe no scales at the register?
We do have another smaller grocery closer to our apartment, but it seems a bit more expensive so I was very thankful to go this huge one today. I hope you enjoyed the pics!
Six Sandowiches 