Saturday

And the waiting begins.   Today is Saturday and we pretty much just explored the downtown of Arkhangelsk.  We got out about 10 am, but nothing really opened till 11.  We did find a larger grocery store and got a few more things to drink.  And I found some Pantene J    We walked around for over an hour and then came back to the hotel.   After a break, ventured out again.  We found a couple of malls and kids stores.  I got a couple pair of cute tights and an outfit for Ally.  It is hard to tell a mall around here unless you can read the signs I guess.  J   For the most part they look like any other 4 story building that could be offices or apartments.  We walked around a couple more hours and were beat.  So we took the rest of the afternoon off, and just got back from eating at a psydo Italian restaurant.   I had minestrone soup, but it was more like thick tomatoe soup with kidney beans with spices and cheese on top.  It was good, but different.  Also the pasta with meat, had no tomoatoe sauce at all. It was good, but had carrots, onion and some cream sauce.  So the food is defiantly different.  Thomas has been experimenting as last night he tried dried reindeer meat for an appetizer and today, rabbit with potatoes.  He did mention that he had the best salmon steak ever as well.  They are very heavy on seafood here, not so good for me.

 

Otherwise we have noticed that a lot of the trees are cut right in half about 15 feet high and the parks, are not groomed at all.  Lots of overgrown grass and weeds.  I took a couple of pictures.  We are learning a few more Russian words and I am sure will have a log of them down by the time we leave.  Which will be in too many days.  I think 25 till we are on our way home. 

I will post pictures on various sites tomorrow.