been a long week, probably only remmber half of it.
visited the russian museum, large oil painting of Pompeii blowing its top, some folk art including a wooden carving of 30 mice in a procession carrying th the hogtied body of a cat.
went through catherines palace, place is modeled after versaille, but the hall of mirrors is 10 times bigger. visited the legislature and supreme court of St. Petersburg, met the chief justice, here called a president of the court. the structure of the gov't in Russia is nuts. there are 38 'subjects' which are like states, and st. pete and moscow are each states, not just cities. ate at an irish pub one for one of the guys b-days, had a guiness thast was way overpriced. ate at a british place called 'Dickins' last night, there was an australien man singing and playing guitar. hit up a banya, russian bath house. there was a sauna, then the cold bath, then a hooka room, the massage roo, and a billiards room, the whole flat of the building was pprivate to our group.
no classes tomorrow, so tonight begins our last weekend in st. petersburg.
over the wekend we're hitting up the yusoprov palace, th hermitage, a hyrofoil ride, visiting a battleship, and i don't know what all else. probably going to hit up 'the idiot', a vege friendly restaurant, the ethnogrophy museum which has Peter the greats collection of babies in jars, and maybe even a cabaret show.
Not only did i miss AC this week, but billy idol was here last week. I've bought like 16 metal albums here, none in english.