Alexandra Leaving

We had wonderful holidays in Moscow. I am still feeling a bit jet-lagged, but happy at the same time.

Major highlights:

- Precious time spent with the family

- Missing you all

- Meeting fabulous rika_66 again.

- Much ice-skating done, including Red Square.

- Sasha and I never get tired of the Tretyakovsky art gallery.

- Museum of History in Moscow: Gold Exhibition and a 8 BC boat made out of the whole piece of wood.

- Nutcracker in the Bolshoy theatre was absolutely magical.

- We went to a Cat Theatre. And it was great!

- Moscow is huge, full of MILLIONS of people and has some of the largest shopping malls known to a man. These malls are so huge that they have whole ice-rinks inside.

- Watched Strugatsky's adaptation, The Inhabited Island. Truth to be told, visually the film was a patchwork of shamelessly stolen bits from "Matrix", "Equilibrium" and even "Battlestar Galactica". But I liked it because : 1) Strugatsky!!! 2) Vasiliy Stepanov is jaw-droppingly pretty. He can't act but this doesn't stand on the way of his good looks:



( The HUGE version of Vasiliy Stepanov )

I hope you are all well and happy! Please let me know of any news!!!

Happy belated birthday to lage_nom_ai!!! I hope all your wishes will come true this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!