Correction

In my rant, I said the map online showed the Orphanage as being hundreds of meters. It is really about 7.5 miles form our hotel. Still takes an hour to get there but it has taken me an hour to get 7.5 miles in Boston at times too. The traffic is still worse here. Some people follow lights when they want. We have some people want to be the last person through a red light. Here, the last person may also be the first person through the next green light.

Next time here we will stay at a hotel much closer to where we need to be. We are still happy we stayed here due do its proximity to major tourist sights including the Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square and Arbat St.

Mid Monday

We walked around Old Arbat Street. A tourist area for buying souvenirs and the sort. Probably overpriced but the costs of the things we purchased seemed quite fair to us. A Few T Shirts which were $10.00. The Matryoshka Dolls were also fairly priced we thought. Or I guess a better way of phrasing it is, we felt what we got for what we paid was fair. Because we were not going to many other places, and the amounts felt fair we had no problem paying the price.

Snowed again here but nothing like what you guys back home have gotten. It also seemed a bit warmer today than yesterday. The fine snow on our cheeks did not hurt like it did yesterday.

The store had an American Presidents Matryoshka doll set with Obama being the outer then going inwards, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Raegan. As a joke I almost got one for Jim. They also had one which was Obama and then his family with each one inside. In the end we figured we were better off saving the money because Jim may not find it as funny as I did.

I will add, some of the dolls really were impressive. The artwork can be so detailed on them. We also bought a few things for Kat to have from Moscow. The staff at the store, because we purchased a decent amount and knew we were adopting threw in a few little things for Kat as well. They were quite nice. I would certainly suggest the store to anyone who chose to ever go to Moscow.