Day 6 Tourists in Moscow and day 7 travels

After doing the old Arbat district yesterday,

we headed towards the centre of Moscow and revolution square.   We didn't go into the Kremlin armory, I really had no desire, it was just cool to see how enclosed and separated it is from the rest of the city.  Moscow is a series of concentric circular roads and the river cuts through the middle and the Kremlin and Red Square are situated in the centre.  We saw the outside of tombs and museums and churches, St. Basil's Cathedral being the most impressive and famous.

We also ended up in a massive underground mall.  This is why Russia feels more like Toronto than Europe, massive malls with major brand name stores.  We walked around for about four hours and decided to head back to the apartment.  When crossing major roads there are underground tunnels, which is nice, and we get the feeling it really wouldn't matter if we just ran across the road anyway.  Russians do what they want!  They park where they want, enter rooms when they want, cross streets, etc.

It was nice being a tourist for 36 hours!

We got up bright and early on the 19th, oh, i swear it is only dark for about 5 hours here.  In Sterlitimak, it was still light out at 11 pm and started getting bright between 4 and 5, and headed to the airport.  We flew to Warsaw and then to Toronto.  It was too hard to sleep because it was during the day for everyone else but after midnight for us. We were flying with the sun, so it was never dark, and everyone else was awake and active.  Our plane had purple seats...I liked it!  We landed in TO at 8pm, 4am for us. Our flight wasn't until the next morning so we got a room in the Sheraton and slept and showered... so nice!  If we didn't do that there is no way we would feel 'human' when we landed in Halifax at 9ish!

Best. Trip.  Ever.
Let's do this two more times, ok?
I look forward to "do you have anything to declare?". "Yes, one kid."