The subtitle from the previous post comes from my faulty memory and a pretty funny mistake I made. So I discovered these pretty delicious things called pelmeni, which are little dumplings with various fillings. So far I've had meat filled ones and other ones filled with potato. They are really good with sour cream, easy to make, and seemed like a natural choice for a quick dinner especially after a long day at class or something. One day, we went to the big grocery store called Ashan to get some food. I thought "Gee, I ate a bunch of pelmeni last night, so I must need more." I did not remember the very important fact that the pelmeni I ate the night before were not mine, but in fact belonged to Joey (a fellow MiM student, don't worry I didn't steal them. We had a communal meal). So I then bought 1.5 kilos of pelmeni (1 kg = 2.2 lb). I get home and go to put them in my freezer only to discover that I still had 1.5 kilos in the freezer. I now have 3 kilos of pelmeni and have kind of gotten tired of eating them.
Anyway, as I wrote in the previous post, we went to this big concert on Saturday night and then watched fireworks. The concert was pretty awesome. They held it in front of the Bolshoi theater and had a light show on the front of the theater. They sang some songs in Russian, played some jazz song, and played some classical music. All in all, I really enjoyed it. We left the concert early (around 10pm) since the fireworks started at 10:30 and we wanted to try and get a good spot. We fell in with the crowd and proceeded to Red Square. When we finally got to a likely place, we saw some trails of smoke from some fireworks that were going off. Apparently a big building was blocking our view. Then just as we were about to leave (along with the rest of the crowd), a bunch of fireworks went off right over our heads. It was pretty awesome, but too short in my opinion. But apart from that, I liked that we were able to be here to celebrate Moscow's birthday. Here's some pictures from that night:
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| A shopping mall next to the Bolshoi that looked awesome at dusk. |
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I took multiple pictures of the Bolshoi as the lighting changed
and as it got darker. |
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| Bolshoi again. |
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| Some cool fireworks pictures. |
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| Fireworks... |
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| And more fireworks. |
Earlier that day, we had gone on a walking tour of part of Moscow. Our tour guide was a math professor from IUM that dabbles in history as a hobby. But that may be the biggest understatement of all. Our tour consisted of walk 5 steps, 30 minute discussion of hundreds of years of historical stories that occurred on that spot, walk another 5 steps, rinse and repeat. I have never met someone with such an encyclopedic knowledge of history. And to top it off, this is only something he does in his spare time! It is amazing to be walking around buildings and houses that are older than the US by 100+ years.
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| Statue of Dostoevsky in front of the Lenin Library. |
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Our group taking photos of Fyodor. That's right, we're on a
first name |
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Our tour guide said he had never seen this in his entire life. He said
this was some kind of presidential procession or something. |
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| Kremlin wall and building. |
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An odd statue of Peter the Great that was supposed to be a statue
of Christopher Columbus. |
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Our tour guide, David (red hair), Mitchell (glasses), Jacob (back to us),
and Chris in the background. |
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| Jacob's face and Yuki taking a picture. |
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| Christ the Savior church |
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| Another picture of Peter Columbus. |
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| Can't remember. |
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| A church that used to be a bakery/KGB archives. |
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| Our group again. The professor describing the church above. |
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| Tretyakov Gallery |
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| Not sure what this is. |
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Ryan, Yuki, Jacob, Mitchell, and Joey at a restaurant
that serves food from the Caucasus region. Very good. |
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