Saturday, Apr 18th – 8pm (St Petersburg time)
Today we saw a lot of St Petersburg history. We had our first sunny day today for all our trips. However, the seeing the sun did not mean we were warm. It was pretty cold and I think we were all wishing we had warmer clothes. We went with another couple to Tsarskoye Selo and saw The Summer Palace, also known as Catherine’s Palace (picture #1, #2).
On our way there and back we say many dachas (picture #3).
A dacha is a little shack that the people who live in the city have in the country. They are usually really tiny and they also have a garden and fruit trees. Then we at what is becoming our favorite place Stolle Restaurant. They make pies; meat pie, rabbit pie, chicken pie, herring pie, caviar pie, apple pie, lemon pie…you get the idea. It is a stuffed pastry. It is very good and inexpensive. After that we wandered to the souvenir market and the Church of the Resurrection and Spilt Blood (see picture #4).
The day was so beautiful that we wanted to get some more pictures. It is light here from about 6am to 9pm, so we went walking around the city some more. We wandered into the Kazan Cathedral where there were tons of people in different forms of worship for the Russian Orthodox Easter which is tomorrow. We saw the priests blessing people’s Easter cakes with holy water. The entire experience was very interesting. We found “The Bronze Horseman,” a statue of Peter the Great on horseback looking over the Neva River (the main river in St Petersburg – picture #5). 
Then we walked past St Issac’s Cathedral, but it was closed (see picture #6).
Tomorrow we’ll try and go inside and we are also heading over to Peter & Paul Island to see the fortress that was built there along with the church that holds the graves of all the Tsars. We will find out tomorrow night what time we will be picking Maddox up on Monday. That’s all for today.
On our way there and back we say many dachas (picture #3).
A dacha is a little shack that the people who live in the city have in the country. They are usually really tiny and they also have a garden and fruit trees. Then we at what is becoming our favorite place Stolle Restaurant. They make pies; meat pie, rabbit pie, chicken pie, herring pie, caviar pie, apple pie, lemon pie…you get the idea. It is a stuffed pastry. It is very good and inexpensive. After that we wandered to the souvenir market and the Church of the Resurrection and Spilt Blood (see picture #4).
The day was so beautiful that we wanted to get some more pictures. It is light here from about 6am to 9pm, so we went walking around the city some more. We wandered into the Kazan Cathedral where there were tons of people in different forms of worship for the Russian Orthodox Easter which is tomorrow. We saw the priests blessing people’s Easter cakes with holy water. The entire experience was very interesting. We found “The Bronze Horseman,” a statue of Peter the Great on horseback looking over the Neva River (the main river in St Petersburg – picture #5). 
Then we walked past St Issac’s Cathedral, but it was closed (see picture #6).
Tomorrow we’ll try and go inside and we are also heading over to Peter & Paul Island to see the fortress that was built there along with the church that holds the graves of all the Tsars. We will find out tomorrow night what time we will be picking Maddox up on Monday. That’s all for today. 
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