Some Happenings.

So this weekend was supposed to be the start of our vacations out of country, unfortunately we found out that there are issues with the visas being processed so we won't be able to leave Russia until October 30th for our long vacation (and they're actually really hoping it gets done by then) so we had to cancel our trip to Finland that was supposed to be this weekend (Oct. 16-19) and reschedule Estonia (Oct. 24-26). We're all pretty bummed about it, but we're trying to make the best of it, some of us lost quite a bit of money since we already had things booked for the trips.

Kelsey and I being American.

Since I last wrote I ate my first American food meal (Burger King) and we've had some adventures. We've been spending a lot of time exploring the city on the weekends, so we've been finding some stuff that's less touristy, which has been fun all on its own. One Friday we went to the oldest cemetary in St. Petersburg, there were actually a bunch of famous people buried there.

Next to a giant sculpture rose.

Coolest cemetary.

Super creepy.

That same weekend we got a chance to go see a Russian ballet, we saw Anna Karenina and it was really beautiful.

This weekend we tried to keep things fun, because we were supposed to be in Finland technically, but we didn't want to get too sad about it, but we also wanted to be somewhat lazy before things start getting crazy and we're traveling out of the country nearly every weekend next month. We hung out and took a bunch of pictures at a park close to our apartment on Friday.

Kelsey's face in this picture is amazing.

Victoria says this describes us perfectly.

Kelsey always makes the best faces.

Tepemokin' it up.

If trees had arms part 1

If trees had arms part 2

 After that we went back to the apartment and decided whipped cream mustaches would be the very best idea...ever.

On Saturday we decided to go back to the Winter Palace (which we've seen on the outside) and go INSIDE. Inside is part of the Hermitage Museum which is absolutely enormous. I still can't believe that people lived in the Winter Palace (Anastasia lived here guys!), we got lost (and only saw like a quarter of it) and we even had a map. Here are some facts about the palace in case you don't believe me: The Winter Palace has 1500 rooms, 117 staircases, 1,786 doors and 1,945 windows. The pictures don't do it justice, it's beautiful, and I'm really happy students (which we are considered here) get to go for free so we'll definitely take another trip back to explore it some more.

This is a Peacock clock.

Nailed it.

Learning how to be a model.

TODAY IT SNOWED FOR THE FIRST TIME. SNOW. 

It's gonna be a cold next two months.