Thursday night I fell asleep in the chair for at least an hour while Ben visited. We had spent the previous two nights on a train and got very little sleep. They put out an air mattress and I slept for another eleven hours. Neither Ben or I woke until after 8am. The cold bath was welcome after three days without bathing. Breakfast consisted of bread, butter, sardines smoked fish and cucumber slices. Friday was a Holiday (labor day) so the father was staying home and the mother and son went off for a few days. It seems they have a lot of holidays around this time. Ben says the father was off the next 12 days. This particular day everyone was off work and the kids are out Friday and Monday.
The family had a spare cell phone so we took it and bought some minutes from a machine in the metro. I got tired of never knowing what time it is without a cell phone or watch. I quit wearing a watch years ago and never remember to bring one where my phone doesn't work. We have been looking for a cheap watch for days and finally went into a store that had some digital kids watches cheap. Ben asked for a cheap watch. The lady said she had one for 250 rubles. He said cheaper so she said 100. He said cheaper and she went into the back and brought out a watch for 50 rubles. Done. $1.50 It works great but one side of the screen fell back into the watch so you can't see the first one on eleven. Ben asked what time it was and I told him 1:30 when it was 11:30. After a panicked trip across town to meet Ryan we realized the mistake. Now I look carefully.
We went looking for Vera, a 16 year old girl we spent a lot of time with on our cruise up the Volga river 17 years ago. A cute 18 year old girl heard us talking and came over to help us/Ben. She said the family had moved l a couple of years ago but she might be able to find out some information and call us if Ben would give her his number. Ben was happy to oblige but we have not heard from her. We met up with Ryan and the family he has been staying with and toured the palace of Elizabeth the Great. Not very impressive after going to the Hermitage. At 7 we went to the world famous Moscow circus. Very disappointing but I got Janell a little Giraffe.
Ben said he was sorry he went because he had good memories of last time he went. This circus was mostly a bunch of gymnasts who didn't win the gold metal. More off the wall observations. The TVs get very bad reception and almost everything is voiced over. I have never seen so much PDA in my life. The first trip on the metro I counted 8 couples kissing\making out in public. You can't go anywhere without seeing it.
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