Picture Post - Moscow Trip 2, Day 9

It's a picture post! I'll start out by telling you that we had an AWESOME day today. Thanks to Dinia, we took a trip to Sergiev Posad. It was so great to get out of the city and head to the country. We were given a tour by Sveta who was absolutely awesome. She fed us, we had vodka toasts, champagne and a tour of a waterfall and the Monastery. Lots of pictures below.

First, some Red Square pictures from Tuesday night.

(don't you just love the "as soon as possible"?)

At the waterfall: (the waterfall is thought to be holy water. People carry water containers to bring the water back with them. They also have a pool where people jump in (water is freezing) and pray 3 times - dunking under water after each prayer. It was really neat to see.)

The road to the waterfall. Just like 4 wheeling!

At the Monastery: (the Monastery is home to largest seminary school in all of Russia. There are many cathedrals. Women must cover there heads when within the Monastery walls. Sveta told us a lot of history about the area. Being horrible at history, I couldn't even repeat it to you! As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure I have the facts right above. You might be best googling it!)

The end of an awesome day with family and friends:

Paka!

Becky

P.S. Since tomorrow is a low key day I thought I'd entertain you with a few short videos (once I put them together). My sister and I singing karaoke and all of us singing a Russian song and using clappers after lunch today. Ohhhhhhh... you don't want to miss it! :-) :-)