Final Day in Russia

Our last day was very low key. It had finally started to cool off a tiny bit, but we were worn out from our intense week of visiting. So we took it easy wandering around the downtown, doing a little shopping, visiting a couple of parks, and having a nice lunch in the second floor cafe of the bookstore that is right on the corner of the main street.


The view was fantastic, and Julia and I had had enough beer to last us a while, so we decided it was time to try some Russian champagne. (side note: there were many, many moments when all we wanted to drink was a glass of water. It was so incredibly expensive--about 7 euros for a 25cl bottle of Vittel that we drank beer mostly out of principle)


For dessert we went back to the doughnut place where I restrained myself and only had three. We thought it was funny that Erik managed to get powdered sugar on his sunglasses.


We spent the rest of the afternoon visiting with one of Julia's old friends, at one of the bars that he owns in the city.


We stopped at the grocery store on the way home to pick up some food for dinner, and to bring home. Check out the aisle of vodka! We found out as we went through the cash at 11:30pm that you can't buy vodka from large stores past 11pm. Oh well! That didn't seem to stop people from shopping though, we couldn't believe the amount of people that were lined up in the store with full carts that late at night.


And the next day were back in the blue van with Julia's grandma (who was also in love with their dog) headed for the airport.

So there you go, that's our trip to Russia in a nutshell.

Stay tuned for our trip to Avignon...photos uploading as we speak.
:)