The Best Weekend in Russia. (Post One – Friday)
Since last Sunday, not much outside of school and new roommate has happened. About 4 hours ago our hot water stopped working (ie. not the hot in the water, but the hot and the water all together — when you turn the tap, nothing happens), but hopefully that will be solved by tomorrow (according to the people who run the show here). Anyway.. this weekend was the best weekend I have had since I’ve been in Russia.
On Friday I went on a tour trip put on by my campus to Tsarskoe Selo. The trip was only to the Catherine Palace (or so I found out on Friday). It was interesting to see the Catherine Palace, but it wasn’t the palace in Tsarskoe that I wanted to see.
I personally think the Catherine Palace is not as great and amazing as people make it out to be. It’s a nice palace, don’t get me wrong, but I think there are more interesting palaces in Russia (*Hint – My favorite is yellow and is down the road from the Catherine Palace *)
Anyway! Here are a few shots of the Catherine Palace that I took, I won’t bore you guys with a lot, since it’s one of the biggest tourist attractions this side of Russia, there are many photos of it online that will probably look exactly like everything I’ve taken.
So without further ado –
Okay.. so I lied, I put a few more pictures up than I meant too.. but I thought the palace was pretty in sections. 
After we left the Catherine Palace, my roommate Ross and I found a stray dog and made friends with it. He was super friendly and very cute. I grabbed a picture of Ross and the pup!
Once we left our new puppy friend, we walked the ‘garden’ area for a bit. I put garden in quotes because the ‘garden’ isn’t much of anything but snow at the moment. But it was still a nice walk. We piled into our bus and drove for home after that. It was a nice, but too short first trip to Tsarskoe Selo. But oh! this was just the beginning of my weekend. It honestly was the best weekend.
So now.. I will take a break, and work on part two of my weekend post! Saturday!
Cheers Mates!
Laura
Did you get a chance to see the Amber Room?
@Brian Keith O’Hara
Hey Brian!
I apologize about the HUGE delay in response! I get so many spam messages on here that it takes me forever to go through them before finding real comments!
I did get to see the Amber Room, it was lovely! There were no photos allowed, but the work was really great! It’s too bad it’s not the original.