Busy, busy.

In honor of October starting this week we decided to do some decorating, these are a few of the decorations we made.

This past week was a good week of teaching for me, I really enjoyed doing picture frames with the kids and seeing what they drew to put in the frame. Sometimes these kids make me want to pull my hair out and other times they're just sweet. Some more than others.

So on Friday night we left to go on a boat tour of the city (well to watch the bridges open up) and it started at 12:50 am. We got harassed by some drunk guy on our way to the metro and he kept grabbing us and speaking in Russian and we couldn't get him to go away. He did finally, but not until he smacked Caitlin on the butt and ran away. Jerk.

I'm really glad we went when we did because it was pretty chilly. It was an amazing experience and really cool to see. The boat ride lasted an hour and a half and then we were stranded (public transportation stops a little after midnight and doesn't open up again till almost 6 am) so after our boat ride we wandered around and then found a cute little quite bar called Bibliotecka (Library) and had hot chocolate until it was time for buses to run again. Unfortunately our bus never came, some Russian guy tried talking with us and he was trying to be helpful to show us the metro but I think we confused him, we finally found the metro right when it opened and just that home. We didn't get back to the apartment till almost 7 am.

We woke up a few hours later to get going again, we ended up going to the Smolny Cathedral which was very pretty (and we saw it on our boat ride)

We walked up over 300 stairs to the top of each bell tower to overlook the city and it was amazing.

After that we met up with our Russian language teacher and she took us to this awesome Russian Arcade Museum where you can play all the old arcade games.

They had an awesome photo-booth that we had to take advantage of.

Soops Cutes

After that we went to Brett and Pauls host apartment and Paul and Jess made dinner for us, it was really good and also they've got the coolest apartment I've seen here in St. Petersburg, you can step out onto the roof and just look out (they're on the 16th floor). However, this meant another late night for us, we didn't get back to the apartment until about 12:30 am and we actually ended up seeing the crazy drunk guy from the night before, but he didn't recognize us and Jess was about to punch him for what he did the night before.

It was definitely an action packed weekend and we're all exhausted because of it. So much to see!

Next weekend we're planning on going to Pushkin and we're going to see a ballet and then the weekend after that is our three day weekend in Finland!