Kay's in Russia #3

Everyone got up early at Boris' house so we had the place to ourselves for breakfast. I took pictures but they didn't have a card reader. When I find one I will try to send pics. We went back to Moscow and went to the mission home. The president was really happy to see Ben. There is a guy here that makes Matruska dolls of the prophets for all the missionaries. I was hoping to order some but we cant get hold of him.

We met up with Ryan and took a train out to Lobnia where Ben and Ryan both served. After a good hike we found the apartment building Ben was looking for. It was then he realized it was more difficult than he thought to remember one apartment from the next. They all have security intercoms on them so Ben tried the ones he thought was it. We finally abandoned that and went to another where Ben resorted to yelling up at the apartments and sure enough someone came out. They figured with the bad Russian it had to be one of the missionaries.

This was the apartment of the branch president. We had a nice visit and his wife called the other apartment. Katia, a really cute 14 year old girl came over. Ben was here for her baptism and confirmed her. Ben is considering waiting until she grows up to get married. If any Russian girl could get him I think this would be the one. We went looking for another family but gave up after breaking into the building and going down each floor trying to figure out which apartment was theirs. Ben was a little nervous about this because it was how he got beat up the worst on his mission.

When we got back to Moscow we went to a restaurant called My My (moo moo) like the cow sound. There were cow decorations everywhere. It was a cafeteria style where you pick out each item. I had fish and cole slaw and of course, they put a piece of candy on your tray at the check out....Russian desert. A group of kids 10-12 came in and had a birthday party. It was fun to watch and I took pictures. They separated into groups of 5 or 6 and someone wrapped them up in a roll of toilet paper then they broke out of it. They seemed to think it was great fun.
We had an overnight train to St. Petersburg at 9:30 and the 2 hour circus started a t 7pm nearby. We were planning to go but it was closed. The only night this month. We ended up going to Red Square where they had a parade. They are building up to a big holiday on May 5Th. Out of time bye.